Automated management systems to organize work process in a cutting room

Abstract

Lay planning and marker making are processes which prepare and organize work process in a cutting room. Traditionally, material requirement planning, material inventory and lay planning are separate work steps fulfi lled in diff erent departments by diff erent specialists. A lot of paperwork, manual performance of calculations and inexistence of united and easy accessible data base complicates work process and reduces its quality. Already the second decade several companies off er specialized software which links together ERP (Enterprise Recourse Planning), fabric management system, CAD and CAM, exchanges information in between these systems and creates the best solutions to cut material for manufacturing orders. The most important work steps are: running of diff erent planning scenarios, establishing the marker processing time, performing marker calculations, spreading planning and processing of manufacturing reports.