moved step by step past the drawing in needle 7 the corresponding reed gap being opened for the drawing in after the drawing in the reed is likewise located on the taking down side a part of the reed wb can be recognized to the right next to the heald shafts 14 this representation is to be understood as illustrative since the reed at the position shown of the frame 5 is of course located on the setting up side a so called harness truck 15 is provided on the taking down side this harness truck 15 together with the drop wire supporting rails 12 fixed thereon heald shafts 14 and a holder for the reed are pushed into the mounting stand 1 into the position shown after the drawing in the truck 15 carries the harness having the drawn in warp threads kf at this moment the warp beam truck 2 together with the warp beam 3 is located directly in front of the harness truck 15 by means of the lifting device 4 the harness is now reloaded from the harness truck 15 onto the warp beam truck 2 which then carries the warp beam 3 and the drawn in harness and can be moved to the relevant weaving machine or into an intermediate store the functions described are distributed over a plurality of modules which represent virtually autonomous machines which are controlled by the common control computer the cross connections between the individual modules run via this higher level control.