How to use engineering data management to add value to your company

Data collection

Data collection is the first step toward achieving efficient management. It is important for textile companies to have automated systems to quickly and accurately record information about production processes, such as the amount of raw material used, production time, equipment settings, and final product quality.

The Textile Management System (TMS) is constantly evolving in how it records this data. It features a structure that can be modeled according to each company's specific needs, based on mask levels that distinguish generic product engineering from specific engineering, while also customizing process engineering and grouping similar data.  

Once collected, data must be stored in a completely organized and secure manner. As a fundamental aspect of this, the TMS allows information to be accessed quickly, easily, and centrally, preventing wasted time searching for relevant data.  ‍

Absolute security 

Data security is particularly important and must be absolute, as engineering data is vital to a company. The Textile Management System (TMS) ensures this security by configuring user password access permissions with a well-defined hierarchy of privileges. This is not limited to menu access, but extends to the value of the data itself, providing significant security in data management by identifying exactly what each user can access, view, or change within the system. ‍

Data maintenance 

Just as essential as collection is the efficiency of data maintenance and management, which ensures that information is reliable and up-to-date, enabling more precise decision-making. It is important for textile companies to have specific processes in place for the regular verification and updating of data. The TMS offers key analytics to identify errors or inconsistencies in records, as well as the ability to update information as needed and track engineering versioning, which demonstrates the evolution of production data. ‍

Automated operational agility 

As a specialized system, the TMS has the capacity to generate engineering data based on textile calculations, meaning users do not need to calculate values to enter into the system—the system calculates them automatically. To determine many engineering data points, the TMS performs the calculations itself, ranging from highly specific ones—such as applying non-linear geometric interpolation to Carminati table values to determine yarn shrinkage in spinning—to primary production calculations. In all system modules, production, input consumption, and time requirements are calculated automatically using textile formulas. This prevents errors and simplifies engineering data maintenance. The system even automatically adjusts engineering data based on input data received from suppliers. For example, if the system is updated with information that a specific yarn batch has a different count, it recalculates production, consumption, and time without the need for human intervention in the technical specifications. The same applies to finishing, where the TMS automatically corrects dyeing recipes based on the concentration of received inputs or the characteristics of the finished product. 

All this automation in calculations increases the level of efficiency in engineering management and creates an extremely important competitive advantage for companies. When production data is made available quickly, effectively, and reliably, companies can excel in the market, making precise and important decisions with greater agility. This is a decisive competitive edge in the current global landscape. 

Thank you.