How to manage factories?

How to manage factories?

Getting started with Garment IO is an exciting journey that begins with creating your factory in the system. This chapter will walk you through the process, ensuring that you have all the necessary information at your fingertips.

General Settings

The General Settings page includes:

  • Factory name.
  • Factory ID.
  • Factory country.
  • Factory time zone.
  • Factory currency.
  • Factory address.
  • Start of the work week: users can choose the day the workweek begins.
  • Attendance type: users can select between daily working hours or machine-based attendance.
  • Primary system language: users can choose Arabic, English, or French.
  • Secondary system language: users can select a secondary language from Arabic, English, or French.

Production Settings

The Production Settings page includes:

  • Device Language: Set the primary language for the Garment IO device.
  • Target Calculation method: Choose the preferred method for target calculations.
  • Maximum beats threshold: Garment IO recommends keeping this between 3 to 5 processes.
  • Order stoppage threshold: Define the number of days to move a production order from active to stopped.
  • Shift tolerance in minutes: An additional allowance in the time in which the workers work in this time won't be added to the overtime shift, the employee has to exceed this duration to be added to the overtime shift
  • Inactivity employee hours: Set the number of inactive hours before assuming a worker has left the factory.
  • Main Efficiency used: Choose the efficiency metric for ranking workers in reports and screens.
  • Feature Toggles:
    • Enable Login Override: Allow worker to be automatically logged out when another worker logs into the device
    • Enable Batch Grouping: Enable the addition of batch groups.
    • Enable automated beats: Allow the system to add automated beats  to the missing processes if they are withing the missing processes threshold.
    • Enable home section login: Enable employees the flexibility to log into home sections even if not related to their department's home sections
    • Enable idle time: Enable idle time requests.
    • Enable override automated beats: Allow the system to remove the automated/web beats when machine/offline beats are received instead
    • Consider idle time when calculating efficiencies: Consider idle time when calculating efficiency.

Quality Settings

The Quality Notifications page includes:
  • Inline quality warning (yellow).
  • Inline quality issue (red)
  • Quality station defects threshold.
  • Quality station repairs threshold.


Cutting Settings

The Cutting Settings page allows factories to enable or disable the cutting section in the system.


Planning Settings

The Planning Settings page allows factories to enable or disable the planning section in the system.


Once you provide all the necessary information and preferences, our dedicated Garment IO support team will create your factory in the system. This will grant you access to the powerful Garment IO platform, empowering you to monitor your production system, perform quality inspections, manage maintenance, and analyze production costs.

In the upcoming chapters, we will dive deeper into each option, offering a comprehensive understanding of how to maximize the potential of Garment IO. We will explore user management, permissions, and roles, while delving into the functionalities of the AQL module, cutting module, batch grouping, and idle time tracking. Furthermore, we will guide you through setting quality thresholds, both for inline and station quality, to ensure optimal quality control within the system.

Get ready to embark on an enriching journey with Garment IO as we guide you through setting up and harnessing the platform's capabilities. Together, we will enhance your factory's productivity and elevate the quality of your production processes.


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