Development of a remote quick design system for woven fabrics

The development of a remote quick design system is presented. The system can access through the Web, which can be used to quickly generate an optimized set of weaving parameters. The developed system is a client/server configuration where Web browsers were used as a generic client environment serving interface linking the client's parameter input to the search system located on the server side through the common gateway interface. The searching mechanism, developed in Turbo C programming environment and theory based on genetic algorithm, can find several desired solutions of the weaving parameters for the production of woven fabrics under controlled cost through access to the Web side. Moreover, the search mechanism was implemented by integrating the Internet information server 3.0 (IIS 3.0) Web server and a user interface was developed and underlying 2000 server platform. Through the assistance of this Web-based system the weaving mill can integrate the resource of different divisions (e.g. design division, production division and financial division) located at various areas on the earth to fulfill a perfect design of woven fabrics and enhance the enterprise's global competition power.