If you are in the garment industry, read this real-life story.
Do you want to improve your profitability by optimizing your production processes?
Nicole Herrera works in the custom car mat manufacturing industry and contacted us because she couldn’t keep up with all the orders she was receiving and was losing customers and opportunities. She told us that her entire production process is handmade, an excellent way to start her business; now her work is well recognized and she has many orders.
As entrepreneurs we know that losing opportunities is losing money and we work daily to obtain these excellent sales results, but unfortunately Nicole is at a point where she cannot receive any more work due to the time her handmade production process takes. So she asked us to come to her facilities to analyze how to optimize her processes, generating time and money savings and taking advantage of all these new opportunities that are presenting themselves to her.
First Step
Let us first understand your process
Nicole begins by taking her paper pattern pieces and placing them on top of the chosen fabric, tracing so that the fabric can be cut. The first thing we notice is that she has a wall full of these paper patterns, some she will sometimes use depending on the client because, of course, there are many cars on the market and many types of rugs so she spends a significant amount of time looking for each pattern.
Plus knowing that you have all these pattern pieces (80 or more), we believe that your life’s work is taking a lot of risks. You may wonder why? Well, for starters, it’s paper, paper can tear easily, get stained, or worse, it can get wet in the rain or burn in a fire, in other words, natural disasters that we can’t control.
Time is money and Nicole was not giving enough importance to the time she was spending looking for those patterns or the risk that she might lose one or all of her patterns she had invested so many years of work in.
To prevent this and at the same time optimize your production time we have a solution
The digitizer camera system. But what is a camera digitizer? Well, for processes like the one Nicole is doing, we have developed a system that digitizes her patterns from paper to digital format. This system vectorizes her pieces, captures her notches, curves and gray lines, all at the click of a button.
Once the pieces are digitized, all this will be exported to a digital format and now all your patterns are safe, they will no longer be damaged or lost, and you can find them very easily by just typing the name or reference of the model you want to make and you will free up space in your workshop. But the most important thing is that you won’t have to trace on the fabric anymore.
Second step
How do I print them? Don't I need to print them in order to cut the fabric?
Yes, with a Velocity Plotter Pattern Printing Plotter you can print your files very easily and quickly. All you have to do is upload your digital file to the Velocity control center and click print.
Just like that, now her process has become two steps easier and all this is represented in time savings and as we already mentioned, time is money, and Nicole, besides saving money, can now receive many more orders. This is called improving profitability.
At Velocity Plotter we guarantee that you are going to save time and money and improve your profitability.
So yes, here’s an opportunity to grow your business and take on more work, because… because your workflow will be faster and smarter. This is what’s called Industry 4.0 for small businesses in the apparel and textile industry….
… And this is just the beginning.
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