Design Archiveallows you
to reach out to your places and people at the speed
of thought thus ensuring decisions that are well thought
out and commercially correct. In the global village
and the fast changing fashion industry the stakes do
not permit any margin of error and response time. With
the industry becoming more technology driven and control
and reach becoming more and more stretched out the need
for the following is inevitable.
Enhanced connectivity
and communication
Sharing of design assets
Merchant centric approach
Speedier and geographically
far reaching data accessibility
Efficient historic data
management
Focused and versatile
data accessibility
Information
technology has been thus far used for automating
the pre-production and production processes
and Textronics
has been a leading player in this segment.
Design
Archive is an
intelligent design data management system
which hosts a comprehensive library created
over a period of time. The data can be accessed
by various hierarchies/departments of the
organization for their specific requirements
with predefined rights and permission for
design data and corporate security. Sales
person can communicate design and style
requirements while on tour and his request
for customer-oriented development
Design Organizer
Design Archive
is administrator centric software wherein he executes
the following task:
a)
Enables
storage of designs in the data reservoir
b)
Defines
parameters of design styles for storage.
c)
Ensures
that the design categories and sub-categories
are maintained
d) Setting reports generation parameters
and options.
e) Image properties are well managed
for ensuring the flow of information and retrieval by
each user with specific accessibility conditions.
User Groups and design retrieval
The user interface for design communication
to various user groups has been graphically created
keeping an eye on easy accessibility and multi
level query. The user interface can further be
customized as per requirements.
The sales personnel can retrieve
customer specific range during a sales visit.
In absence of the company representative your
business associate can access the range by referring
to the Archive.
Retrieval parameters can be Pastel designs,
floral designs, designs with watercolor effects, or
certain percentage coverage of a certain color.
Security
Keeping in view the security, rights and permissions
are well defined providing conditional access
to relevant department executives and the design
and its related information is made available.
For eg.
The production dept can
access design related information for producing
the fabric and commercial details are barred.
Marketing dept would have
access to the design visuals, and mulit
pronged seek parameters to filter required
range of designs.
Further the design dept
can be allowed access to the presentation
and 3 D modules for creating better display
material.
Specific information is
let out to ensure streamlined availability
of data rather then have excess information
which improves efficiency of for the user
In the sense that the commercial
dept would get price information and design
production data or design issues Also the
design can not be altered
Report Generation
Critically acclaimed feature of this module
is the versatility in generating reports. The generation
can be customised and accessibility to these reports
provided on need basis. The reports allow you to monitor
the trends which otherwise is the most neglected activity
at the field operators level. You can define the report
attributes and periodicity of the same.
Some examples of the reports are:
Most
accessed categories of designs this allows you to
design your sales pitch during a sales call
Productivity
linked reports, etc
Integration
with CAD CAM Systems
Design Archive
is integrated with Textronics
CAD / CAM products to
network with various functional depts. of your
organization, thus providing seamless and efficient
operating capabilities.
Design Archivealso has import capabilities
with other Windows based CAD systems. The data
from these can be used for 3D visualisation of
designs / production data for electronic Jacquard
controllers can be used for Production planning
dept.
Design 3D clubbed with
Archive on a travelling sales persons laptop can
work wonders by way of generating immaculate rendering
of the fabrics in final form as depicted below.
