
Introduction of Computer Aided Design and Computer Aided Manufacturing Technology through adoption of modern designs and colour combinations is making the textile fabrics more attractive and competitive to meet the rapid changing mood of the consumers for fashionable designs both nationally as also internationally. To unleash the creativity of the textile designers, Computer Aided Textile Designing is being adopted more and more in both the handloom and powerloom industries not only to enhance productivity but also to enhance designing possibility thereby reducing monotony. Last decade, textile industry has witnessed not only a tremendous modernisation in technology but also adoption of IT and Computer Science on massive scale.

The present article has been focused only on the key features, flexibilities and other unique features and merits of the CAD/CAM module for dobby industry (both powerloom and handloom). This virtually 'No Limit' solution for textile designing and manufacturing has a very vast application areas from dobby, jacquard and screen printing industries to blanket, carpet, knitting industries and so on. To compete in the global market, it has now become a must to adopt such type of latest tools for not only powerloom sector but the handloom sector as well in order to increase productivity and also to achieve value addition of the produce to meet the rapid changing mood of the consumers for fashionable designs both nationally as also internationally.

Handloom sectors are also taking the help of this unique designing technology, though quite few in numbers till date.

In this new millennium, the age of IT & Computer Science, this state-of-the-art technology is being adopted by almost every powerloom industry.

It has virtually unlimited features that can never be imagined by manual designing. Adoption of this new technology facilitates easy creation of virtually any kind of weave and design, helps simulate the created weave/design into the virtual fabric in different colour combinations even before the actual fabric is produced and if satisfied, provides us the required parameters in various formats as per our requirement to weave the created design into the actual fabric form. Introduction of CAD/CAM technology through adoption of modern designs and colour combinations and advantages of this cutting edge technology in the field of textile designing and manufacturing have been revolutionising the textile industry.
