MTO / Make-To-Order Highlights

• Capacity and/or materials feasibility checking
• Multi-level product views
• Suggested dates or availability if original request is not feasible
• The ability to consider forecasted orders from the master Gantt chart without having to create firm production orders
• Manual overrides of blocking as required
• Scheduling and allocating of scarce (critical) resources.

Figure 1.3 Module For Making Order

Fabric Inspection and Cut Optimization System

CATS (Computer Aided Textile Supervision) is a PC based module that integrates the production and inventory systems with greige and finished inspection. It provides methods to identify, map, and place inspected fabric defects either directly into the TIM database, or into an integrated PC network, so as to both archive the data, and to make it immediately available for use in allocation and production confirmation. CATS utilize an encoder to measure the cloth and a PC screen at each inspection table.

CATS is capable of:

• Providing a graphical user interface for inspection and cutting operators workstations, including connection to length counter
• Previous inspection performed for this roll or piece is simultaneously displayed on a graphical bar, just below the graphic bar of the actual inspection
• Coding defects, including length defects, keeping both length and width co-ordinates and denoting severity
• Ranking defects through user-defined parameters, including a points system
• Automatic calculation of quality level based on defect count or points. The quality level is constantly displayed on the graphic bar in real-time, changing color as one level is changed to another
• Producing reports of defect types, quantities downgraded per shift, per loom, etc.
• Multiple evaluation methods with different value grids
• Optimizing roll cutting
• Creating piece labels and tags
• Automatic uploading of inspected rolls/pieces into inventory
• Initializing re-inspection activities
• Interfacing with electronic weight checking systems
• Management of narrow width splitting after inspection
• Optimization of the joining of small rolls within a batch