Embroidery Department

Primary Functions

1. Organise Workload to ensure date required priorities can be met
2. Initiate and undertake embroidery processes, capturing timings for set up and run durations
3. Embroider garments items per qtys per orders
4. Account for finished items, scrap and numbers processed
5. Capture family Images of embroidered items
6. Establish destination for finished goods (stock, despatch)

Inputs

Outputs

Current Processing Flow

Organise Workload

Note: The process of organising workload begins before a shift starts and is reviewed and updated throughout the shift as underlying information and availability statuses update

1. Process lines "To do" for the embroidery department are scheduled by production management according to the following attributes :-
   

2. • • Estimated Print Date

     • Machine

     • Shift

3. Within the sets of embroidery jobs allocated to a machine for a given day, the embroidery manager prioritises the relative order of when jobs will be undertaken in the shift by assigning a priority number.
4. Priorities are determined using a series of additional information:-
   • The date and time of when the final produced goods must be completed / delivered (the shorter the time between now and this point raises the priority)
   • The availability of the assets required to undertake the process (priority is lowered if the required assets  - stock / art approvals - is outstanding)
   • The number of additional processes that are required on the job order (generally, the higher the qty of processes still to do on a job will raise the priority as logistically job duration before completion lengthens)
5. Where the date required equals the estimated process date, the process is highlighted in red to indicate it must be done today.
6. The Embroidery manager continues this process until all embroidery jobs for all machines for the forthcoming shift have been prioritised.

Initiate and undertake embroidery processes, capturing timings for set up and print run durations

1. For each embroidery process in the embroidery department, the corresponding highest priority job is selected.
2. The blank garments required are collected from their storage location, and located besides the corresponding sewing Machine.
3. If needed, pre-checks/set ups are undertaken and the time taken recorded. Once completed, the record is marked as such and simultaneously, the actual  run begins, and it's start time is recorded for MIS as well as production status of in progress.
4. The embroidering job occurs.
5. At the end of the production run, staff record the end time / date  and thus the duration of the run for MIS purposes.

6. The production status for the embroidering process job is now complete.

Account for finished items, scrap and numbers processed

1. If the embroidery process is the final process line for the job-  that is there are no other uncompleted processes left, then the embroidery staff  capture produced items information
2. Specifically two sets of information are captured.
   1. Per process line, the number of processes successfully applied, and (if applicable)the numbers scrapped.
   2. Per specific garment created (i.e. per printed SKU) the quantities successfully produced, and (if applicable) the numbers scrapped.
3. Additionally, the embroidery staff will upload a family group picture of each garment type created (garment family is defined as same garment type, colour and design)
4. Once this data is recorded, embroidery staff mark the data collection process as completed, place the completed goods into a trolley, and record the specific trolley location against the record
5. The trolley is then physically moved to the despatch area for further processing.
6. Where the embroidery process is not the final process on the job, data entry is not done, but the following  steps occur.
   1. the qty of each embroidery process successfully applied per position/process line is recorded.
   2. If it doesn't exist - a family group picture for the produced goods -[ per step 3)] is uploaded.
   3. The produced goods are recorded as located in a specific trolley and located to the other processes team to await next the processing lines.

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