The Production Workspace

If you run the factory floor, this is your home. Open Desk → GarmentFlow → Production and the entire pipeline from a released order to a finished carton is one click away.

The Production workspace is organized around six cards, in roughly the order work flows through the factory:

  1. Orders — Production Orders, which take a Production Ready Tech Pack and a quantity and turn them into a plan.
  2. Cutting — Marker Orders and Cutting Orders, the bridge between the order and the bundles that hit the line.
  3. Batches — Production Batches, Batch Cards, and the Operation Ledger Entries that track every movement.
  4. Reports — tabular answers on status, capacity, materials, labour and cost.
  5. Subcontracting — the billing queue and the two reconciliation reports for work sent out. See Subcontracting.
  6. Setup — the masters and settings that need to be right before the floor starts running.

Above those, the workspace surfaces four KPIs you'll glance at every morning: Planned Qty, Orders In Progress, Overdue Orders, Overdue Batches. Below them sit four quick lists: Overdue Production Orders, Overdue Batches, In-Progress Orders, and Planned & Released Orders. Most production managers spend more time in those lists than in the full Production Order list.

The Production workspace: the order funnel across the top (Draft, In Progress, On Hold, Completed), shortcut cards for Production Orders, Batches, the Operation Ledger and Batch Cards, and the Production Pulse, Latest Movements, and Where The Work Is panels below.

The mental model

Three sentences that tie everything together:

A Production Order says what you're making and how much. A Production Batch is a slice of that order that travels together through the floor — same cut, same line, same path. The Operation Ledger records every time stock or work changes hands.

Every page in this section is a stop somewhere on that path.

Where to start

If you're new to this workspace, read in this order:

  1. Production Order — what gets created when an order is released.
  2. Cutting and marker — how an order becomes cut bundles.
  3. Production Batch — how those bundles flow through operations to finished goods.
  4. Daily execution — what your supervisors fill in every shift.
  5. Packing — boxing the finished goods and getting them ready to ship.

Then, as the order comes to an end: Closing the order, and for anything sent out, Subcontracting.

When you're ready to see the floor at a glance, jump to Dashboards. When you need a tabular answer, Reports.

The apps

Two touch-friendly apps sit alongside the Desk, each on its own page:

  • Production App at /garmentflow/production — for line supervisors with a tablet, and now for machine health on the floor.
  • Cutting App at /garmentflow/cutting — for the cutting room: markers, rolls, plies, defects and handover.
  • Production Manager App at /garmentflow/production-manager — flow, cutting, materials and batch audit, for the person walking the floor.
  • Packing App at /garmentflow/packing — boxing and labelling finished goods. See Packing.

Machines

The machines the floor runs on live in their own workspace: Maintenance — work centers, floor monitor, breakdowns, preventive maintenance and spare parts.

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