Before any production starts, the system needs to know your factory inside out. This update makes sure every setting you configure translates directly into your daily operations.

🏭 Company Settings | Factory Creation and General Settings

Getting started with the system required every core factory detail to be configured from day one, or you'd run into issues with attendance, timing, or language down the line.

That changes now.

Add New Factory

The General Settings page gives you full control over the factory’s main data:

1. Factory name and number.
2. The country where the factory is located.
3. The factory’s time zone.
4. The currency used in operations.
5. Factory address.
6. Start of the workweek, meaning the day on which employee working schedules begin.
7. Attendance and check-in method, either through daily working hours or factory biometric devices.
8. Primary system language: Arabic, English, French, or Turkish.
9. Secondary system language, freely selected from the four available languages.

General Settings

Production Settings

1. Device Language: The primary language displayed on Garment IO devices.
2. Target Calculation Method: The appropriate method for calculating production targets, which is displayed on Garment IO devices.
3. Maximum Missing Operations: Garment IO recommends a limit between 3 to 5 stages only.
4. Number of Days Before a Production Order Moves from Active to Stopped Status.
5. Time Allowance (in minutes): A period during which overtime is not counted; the worker must exceed it for actual overtime hours to be recorded.
6. Worker Inactivity Hours Before Assuming They Have Left the Factory.
7. Primary Efficiency Metric Used: The efficiency metric by which employees are ranked in the employee efficiency report.
8. Employee Salary Method: Either daily or hourly.
9. Hours Required to Consider a Bundle as Old: The number of hours allowed to pass without any progress on at least one stage of the bundle. If this duration is exceeded without any production activity, the system marks the bundle as old.
10. Color Efficiency Settings: You can define minimum and maximum efficiency thresholds and assign colors to each range. These colors will later be used in the department live dashboard and factory screens to display performance levels based on your configuration.
11. Target Color Settings: You can define minimum and maximum target achievement percentages and assign colors to each range. These colors will also be used in the department live dashboard and factory screens to reflect performance levels according to your setup.

There are also several advanced settings that allow further customization of system behavior, such as:

1. Login Override: Automatically logs out a worker when another worker logs into the same device.
2. Bundle Groups: Allows adding a group of bundles.
3. Auto Operations: The system automatically suggests missing stages if they are within the allowed limit.
4. Main Department Login: Allows employees to log into main departments even if they are not linked to their primary department.
5. Downtime Feature: Enables workers to send downtime requests directly from the Garment IO device.
6. Auto Operation Override: Allows stages on offline machines to bypass automatic operations if they exist.
7. Include Downtime in Efficiency Calculation: This option includes approved downtime in efficiency calculations, where the approved downtime duration is deducted from the worker’s paid time when calculating efficiency.

Production Settings

Quality Settings

This page defines the alert thresholds for mobile quality and inspection stations:

1. Defect rate requiring notification in mobile quality (yellow level).
   
2. Defect rate requiring notification in mobile quality (red level).
   
3. Defect rate in quality stations that triggers a production order notification.
   
4. Repair rate in quality stations that triggers a production order notification.
   
5. Enable factory internal quality inspection: allows checking whether the selected order meets the required quality standards.
   Quality Settings

Cutting Settings

When the cutting department is enabled, a set of features becomes available to improve accuracy and reduce waste:

1. Add a tolerance unit, either as a length or a percentage.
2. Add cutting allowance: this helps prevent producing more pieces than the allowed limit, ensuring compliance with the operational margin for each size and color, and reducing errors during cutting orders.
3. Minimum tolerance quantity in cutting, which is the most important update in this section.

When dealing with small quantities, applying the standard tolerance percentage produces exaggerated and unrealistic results. Therefore, a new field has been added called “Maximum threshold for starting cutting”, with a default value of 50 pieces:

1. If the quantity is 50 pieces or less, the system automatically ignores the tolerance percentage.
2. If the quantity exceeds 50 pieces, the system applies the tolerance percentage as usual.

This threshold can be adjusted according to your business needs, if you have the required permission. The original tolerance percentage does not change; it is only applied above this threshold.

Cutting Settings

Planning Settings

Planning Settings

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Advanced Garment IO Settings

The Advanced Garment IO Settings page allows you to control the following

1. Enable piece tracking.
   
2. Use targets generated by AI.
   
3. Allow packing.
   
4. Enable quality.
   

Advanced Garment IO Settings

📖 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs):

1. What's the recommended limit for missing operations?
   Garment IO recommends a limit of 3 to 5 stages only.
2. What's the difference between auto-strikes and auto-strike override?
   Auto-strikes automatically suggest missing stages within the allowed limit, while the override lets stages on an offline machine bypass those automatic strikes if any were added.
3. How exactly does the cutting allowance threshold work?
   Any order with a quantity of 50 pieces or less has no allowance percentage applied, while quantities above 50 have the percentage applied normally. This threshold can be adjusted based on your factory's needs.
4. Can the default cutting allowance threshold be changed?
   Yes, it can be adjusted to fit your operational needs, if you have the required permission.

1. Is enabling the planning module mandatory?
   No, enabling it is optional and depends on what suits your factory's operational requirements.

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