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PRO-SMV

Pro-SMV will provide your company with the basis to accurately establish STANDARD TIMES *with which you will be able to monitor your performance against International Standards.
With Pro-SMV you will be able to install an equitable monitoring systems that enables you to judge *the performance of all direct operators fairly. This is the basis of a contented workforce. It takes *away the subjective view of conventional work-study techniques, and becomes the foundation on *which many other activities depend.
Pro-SMV highlights method improvement potential, and will make the company more *conscious of the real value of improved methods, and will improve productivity considerably. Correct *methods, once developed can be Videoed and a library of ~Best Practice~
Built up covering all the major operations within your organization. This means that operators are *all using the same method to do the job, with the obvious spin off on quality and cost savings and *training time.

PRO-MAN

Capture Style & Order information and view Styles with Graphics
Build Master Files of all Operations and Standard Times, Sizes, Colours and Machines.
Build Operation Breakdowns or import from GSD for Bundle Tickets, Costing and Line Balancing.
Import bundle information from Pro-Cut.
Incentive Payment systems to calculate hourly, daily and weekly incentives.

	Personnel Details for your workforce including Skills, Performances, Loans, Absenteeism, Warnings, Etc.
	Performance Graphs for Operators Sections, Divisions or Factory after each scan.
	Scanning Produces all required factory information quickly, economically and accurately.
	Print Reports to paper or directly to screen. View performances, Lost Time, Off
	Standard Time, Absenteeism, Bonus, Quality, Work In Progress and much, much more.

PRO-PLAN

Capacity Calandar for all sections, taking into account Efficiencies, Overtime, Absenteeism and Holidays
Reserve, Change and view "Load" on available capacity
Pre-Production functions are given dates for completion and if late they are flagged in red
Style Details Have pictures attatched for easy identification and improved communication.
Line Production Schedules for all involved in the production process and deliver your orders on time.

	Plan Various Scenarios and choose the most suitable.
	Pre-Production Function Dates are automatically re-calculated when order priorities change.
	Audit Trail allows management to track the actions of department heads to ensure that the pre-production functions are running on time.
	"Live" Work In Progress tracking and know the progress of every order.

PRO-CUT

Setup Marker types, table lengths, size curves, end loss and loss allowances.
Generate Automatic marker plans to ensure optimum fabric utilisation, Minimise marking, Laying and Cutting time.
Combine colours for linings / inter-linings and combine sizes for pocketing to plan markers for these items.
Proportionally allocate additional fabric on orders.
Total work in progress control.
Establish cutting room savings by day, week, month or year to date.
Account for every Inch/cm issued and report on fabric suppliers by quality, width, length and delivery promises.
Step lay planning for savings on end loss and laying time.

	Compare costed consumption and establish to marker consumption and establish fabric profit or loss before authorising markers and issue of fabric.
	Automatically calculate standard times for all cutting room functions and link to Pro-Man to print work tickets to monitor cutting room performances.
	Manipulate lay planning to maximise garments per lay, reduce number of markers and maximise lay height.
	Automatic generation of laying up sheets.
	Fabric reconcilliation, report for all fabric types, orders and year to date.
	Monitor consumption throughout large orders, calculating average marker efficiencies as the order progresses.
	Use Touch-screen, Palm top computer, or conventional laying up sheets for the recording of laying up details, giving "LIVE" fabric utilisation.

PRO-STOCK

Maintain inventory quantities and values by colour and size categories.
Slow-moving, obsolete or damaged inventory items are identified automatically.
Inventory locations can be maintained for ease of issue and control.
Pro-Stock links Directly to Pro-Cut so widths for marker planning are instantly visible thus reducing fabric wastage.
Fabric stock is permissible in different widths and shades
Reserve Stock for orders / styles or purchase orders indicating how much stock remains unallocated

	Individual sizes of specific stock items for example Zips may be stored by colour and size.
	Pictures of all stock items assists in identification and facilitates easy movement of older stock.
	Bar-coded tickets are attached to all items in stock and all future issues or returns of stock are scanned directly into the system.
	Pro-Stock links to Pro-Cost for latest item price.
	Preview, Print or e-mail reports directly from the system.
	Interface to various Accounting Packages and with ODBC, other software applications.
	Use the audit trail to monitor progress of outstanding items.

PRO-Balance	Produces an average performance for each operators skill Keeps a history of each operators skill Will maximize the output from a given number of operators Use the best operators to produce a given number of garments Maintain a well balanced section Produces line layout plan Produces a list of machines for the line plan Produces a list of guides and folders needed
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PRO-ASSET

Pro-Suite will now incorporate a complete Asset Register, containing information about each asset.

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