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In operations and supply chain management, researcher had encountered, learned and disseminated knowledge about operations as a transformation process, where value addition or enhancement occurs and is studied as systematic interaction among inputs to produce an output. The transformation process can be physical, as in manufacturing operations; location as visible in warehouse operations; exchange as in retail operations; physiological as in health care, psychological as experienced in entertainment, or informational as understood in business communication. The digitization is likely to be an exponential journey for many businesses in world. Technological innovations and changing customer expectations require new business models and organizational principles in the textile industry. Research suggests that those who embrace this challenge and execute a digital strategy outperform average industry standards by as much as 10%. As per Government reports, the size of India's textile market, considered to be one of the oldest in the world, is expected to touch $250 billion in the next two years from $150 billion now. Exports of the industry are expected to double in the next five years, thereby leading to a robust demand for modern technology and accessories, along with engineering. Being an industry which relies heavily on fine details such as equipment monitoring, stock management for dyes and raw material, supply chain visibility, workforce management and coordination, and analysis, thus, becomes the most eligible one for digital transformation. Digitization is an inevitable part of our business lives today. It leads to research question: How textile industry is most suited industry for digital transformation? Researcher would explore the available secondary data to formulate primary data collection tools. The descriptive research design will be used and content will be analyzed from global digital literature sources of textile world (e.g. fibertofashion.com, ASME, industryweek.com, emerald, sciencedirect.com etc.), non-probabilistic convenience sampling will be used and a tool (questionnaire) will be developed for doing empirical study about performance measurement of textile industry processes efficiency, effectiveness and productivity.
Key words: Textile industry, Manufacturing processes, Transformation, Digitalization
1.0 INTRODUCTION
Textiles and clothing are a fundamental part of everyday life and an important sector in the global economy. It is hard to imagine a world without textiles. Clothes are worn by almost everyone, nearly all the time, and for many, is an...