Imagine an apparel factory where garment QC and QA inspectors spend hundreds of man-hours to measure thousands of garments on a daily basis. The chances of human errors in that case are immense. The humanoid approach leads to bad quality.
Similarly imagine a denim factory that requires to measure 1,000 pieces daily, then approximately 3,000 minutes of the total garment inspectors are dedicatedly required if per piece takes 3 minutes in end-line QC. This leads to only two options – either increase the number of workers involved in the measuring process or increase the number of days to conduct the process before it goes to the subsequent process. In both cases, the factory needs to take heavy indirect cost into its account while planning for a project.
Babylon – founded in 2005 and headquartered in California (USA) – represents a vision of innovation in the measurement processes of denim garments with its ‘Measureport’ system by digitalising the measurement process.
Standout feature of Measureport
Measureport is an extremely fast and entirely mobile-based solution. Its digital measuring tape records every measured parameter and feeds directly into the app which is displayed on digital screens installed in the factory in real-time. Measureport provides ready-to-use integration tools and a measuring tape. It seamlessly integrates with PLM and ERP applications which further save energy, time and paper.
Measureport saves up to 60 per cent on measurement time and 65 per cent on the whole measuring procedure, as per what Team Apparel Resources understood while taking a demo of the technology. The technology eliminates the need for reading, calculating deviation and taking notes on any measurements. What’s interesting is a feature that makes it easy for the management to recall a rework/rejection and know which operator is responsible for a particular defect so that required action or training initiative can be taken. The reports can be accessed from anywhere in the globe, using any device and can be shared with anyone. Every measuring device is marked with a unique QR code that holds all measurement history.
AR’s Take
There’s no more need to mark down things like ‘Read,Calculate’, ‘Note it down’, ‘Read it again’, ‘Summarise’. This is what Team Apparel Resources felt while taking a demonstration of the technology. We believe Measureport is a smart device which removes human error in inspection and allows it to acquire reports in a few seconds. It can save a lot of hardships on account of man management and thus contribute positively to the bottom line of the company.
