Because of their remarkable influence on design and exact styling, ruffling operations belong to the most important and most difficult preparatory work when manufactoring home upholstery and car interior decoration. The efficient engineered sewing station 550-12-23 has specially been developed for the processing of thick fabrics and difficult-to-feed material structures. The excellent sewing kinematics ensures a constantly high processing quality, not only with low, but also with extreme ruffling intensities. Individual ruffling programmes with coordinated functions and preselectable basic adjustments can be created , memorized and reproduced at any time by means of the integrated programme control.