Sewing and Garment Floor Control
Matrix has excelled in the Apparel Industry as well, and has found success in Sewing and the Garment Industries. Matrix Controls succeeded in real-time total sewing control with SewQuest, a powerful combination of Shop Floor Control and Automated Production Scheduling. Real-time shop floor control allows data collection sub-systems to record work in process, perform preventive maintenance via repair histories, improve quality of product and control, and operator efficiency, and provides accounting of attendance and hours paid. Integrated with flexible automated scheduling, plant management will now be able to overcome unachievable delivery dates, raw material quality variances, machine breakdowns, operator inefficiencies, bottlenecks in the process chains and delays in the supply chain. The intentions of SewQuest are to:
- Meet- customer order due dates
- Maximize- utilization of labor, materials and machines
- Minimize- idle time, overtime, step delays, lead/queue time, time in the system and WIP (Work in Process)
- Control- historical and current operator and machine data and efficiencies. With major reductions in operators’ clerical work, they experience fewer interruptions, allowing increased garment production at the same workload and better quality. Management can look forward as well to less headaches, freeing up time for more productive planning and forecasting.
Total Garment Control is accomplished with our GarmentQuest package. GarmentQuest was created to provide total apparel solutions. The design and implementation has been very successful. Real-time total apparel control is accomplished through a combination of Transactional Core Solutions and Business and Production Intelligence. Core Solutions provide separate, yet totally integrated modules for Production, Production Design Management (PDM), Forecasting and Inventory, Warehousing, Order Processing, Allocation and Sales, Shipping, Accounting, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) and System Administration. GarmentQuest goes one step further and integrates Business and Production Intelligence into the system, and introduces the term Dashboard. The latter is a technology that allows on-line reporting and the ability to drill down into the details on any given report, and export information to other applications such as Excel or Multiple Formats: XML, HTML or CSV. The custom design capabilities for the Dashboard allow the technology to be flexible and adaptable. The package goes beyond historical data information (analysis from today and yesterday), and takes you to tomorrow, allowing business simulations to be created from your company’s history.