Automation and flexibility - Tools for technological changes

The clothing firms experience in technological up-to-date domain emphasis: the technological management changing needs, generated by automation; the flexibility requirements adjusted to the automate, specialized technological equipments level and to manufacturing systems structure. The paper breaches some specific aspects regarding the technological changes methodology at the clothing industry manufacturing systems level, based on the following aspects: the increasing of specialized equipments using and conformity to the order specifications; the increasing of the structural and organizational flexibility using technological criteria; the optimization of the manufacturing adequacy to the technological tasks.