Patent ID: 7983781

Claim:
A sewing sequence determining apparatus that determines sewing sequences of a plurality of sewing targets, the apparatus comprising: a sewing data storage device that stores a plurality of sewing targets and sewing data in association with each other, the sewing data including at least thread information that is information relating to threads for sewing the sewing targets and sequence information that indicates sequences for sewing the sewing targets; a thread information readout device that reads out the thread information in accordance with the sequence information for each of a plurality of sewing sequence candidates, wherein each sewing sequence candidate is determined from the plurality of the sewing targets having the sewing data stored in the sewing data storage device; a needle bar/thread information storage device that stores needle bar/thread information that is information relating to threads set at a plurality of needle bars of a multi-needle sewing machine; a thread replacement count calculating device that compares sewing thread information that is the thread information sequentially read out by the thread information readout device with the needle bar/thread information stored in the needle bar/thread information storage device, and then calculates a thread replacement count; and an optimal sequence determining device that determines as an optimal sewing sequence candidate the sewing sequence candidate having a minimum thread replacement count as calculated by the thread replacement count calculating device.