Cutting App

The cutting room has its own app. /garmentflow/cutting used to be a tab inside the Production App; it is now a standalone app built around one job — getting a lay marked, spread, cut and handed over — with the workflow states as the interface.

Getting there

Open https://your-site.com/garmentflow/cutting on the device, or scan the QR code on the GarmentFlow Setup workspace and pick Cutting from the launcher. Add it to the home screen and it launches like an installed app.

The four tabs

Tabs can be hidden per person from Settings, so a spreader who never uses By Marker doesn't have to see it.

Cutting — the list

Six status buckets across the top: Wait, Ready, In Process, On Hold, Finished, All.

The buckets are about the batch as much as the cut. Wait is a cut whose Production Batch is still Draft — the cut exists but the batch hasn't been released, so it can't be opened yet. Ready is a released batch with the cut still Pending. Cards for a batch that isn't In Progress are greyed out and carry an overlay pill saying why (On Hold, Cancelled, Completed), rather than opening into a screen where nothing works.

Filters narrow by Style, Fabric, Marker and Batch, with a Clear filters reset. The list pages in as you scroll and keeps loading until the active bucket has something to show, so a sparse bucket doesn't look empty just because the first page held none of it.

Each card shows the variant image, the model, the marker, plies, pieces, its workflow state and — once handed over — the production unit it went to.

By Marker

Pending cuts grouped by marker — cut every order that shares a marker together.

One card per Marker Order: its name, fabric type, how many cutting orders and how many production orders are waiting on it, and the total pieces to cut. A card covering more than one order is flagged Batch N together.

Open one and you get the marker's length, pieces per ply, spreader compensation, a zoomable marker image, and the orders queued against it — with a composite cut view when a single lay covers several orders at once. Hand off from here and every order on that lay moves together.

This is the view that matches how a cutting table actually works: make the marker once, then work through everything that uses it.

Plan

The day view. See Cut Calendar — the planner drags cuts onto days in Desk, and the cutting room sees the result here.

• Day pills across the top — Overdue, Today, Tomorrow and the days after, each with a count.
• A hero card for the selected day: how many cuts are left, how many pieces, and a ring showing how many are done.
• The day's cuts as cards below, tappable straight into the detail screen.

Overdue cuts get their own pill rather than being left behind on a past date. Pull down to refresh; swipe left and right to move between days.

Working a cut

The detail screen is one page that changes as the cut advances. A header carries the production order, fabric, fabric type and date; a dark hero carries the current state, the one thing to do next, the marker length, max ply, total pieces, a Print button for the cutting order, and a four-dot step tracker.

The four stages match the Cutting Order workflow:

1. Make the marker — Pending → Marked.
2. Spread the fabric — Marked → Spread.
3. Cut the plies — Spread → Cut.
4. Hand over the cut — Cut → Handed Over.

The primary action sits in a sticky bar at the bottom of the screen, so it is reachable one-handed and doesn't move as the page scrolls.

The marker image

The marker can be shown inline, collapsed, or opened full-screen. Full-screen it scrolls horizontally at full height with a measurement ruler underneath and a fixed red centre line: as you scroll, a floating pill reads out the position in metres, and tapping anywhere on the ruler scrolls smoothly to that metre.

That readout is what makes defect positions worth recording — "3.4 m in" instead of "somewhere in the middle".

Roll audit

A floating scanner button is available throughout. Scan roll codes with the camera, or type them where scanning isn't possible; scanned rolls accumulate in a panel with a running total of metres. This is the data behind the Cutting Order's roll audit and the fabric reconciliation that follows.

Ply count

Confirming the ply count is a deliberate modal, not a field you can drift past. Adjust if the table ran short or long, then confirm — and the ply count locks. The app warns when the count exceeds the Work Center's machine limit, and applies spreader compensation to the length where the marker calls for it.

Timing

A stopwatch records time on the table. It is wall-clock based, so it survives the screen going off or the app being suspended, and it persists for up to three hours — a cutter can lock the phone mid-lay and come back to the same running timer. Running and paused timers also show as a pill row at the top of the app, so an operator with a timer going on another cut can see it from anywhere.

Defects

Fabric faults are logged where they are found. Log a defect takes three things:

1. Variant and ply — which colourway, and which layer.
2. Where on the marker — open the marker full-screen, line the red centre line up with the fault, and press Place here. The position is stored, not just the fault.
3. The defect — its type, from the same QC Defect Categories the rest of quality uses. Categories can be scoped to the cutting operation so a cutter isn't scrolling past sewing defects.

Pieces held for a defect don't block the rest: Cut without held cuts the remainder and leaves the held pieces out of the handover.

Holds

Hold pauses a cut with a required reason. An emergency hold is called out at the top of the detail screen so nobody quietly carries on with a lay that was stopped for a reason. An On Hold cut also exposes a Force Delete cleanup for bad data — a deliberately awkward path, not a normal one.

Handoff checklist

Handing over opens its own screen: every piece type and size on the cut, with the expected count against what is actually going.

• All pieces accounted for is the default — confirm and go.
• Report a shortage opens per-size adjustment, with Reset all to full to undo.
• Skip checklist exists for shops that don't count at handover, behind a confirmation.

Add a note, confirm, and the handover posts. The manifest names the production batches receiving the pieces, so a cutter can see the work is going where they expect before committing it.

If the destination batch can't receive — it is On Hold, for instance — the app says so and refuses, rather than posting a handoff into a batch nobody is working.

After handover

A handed-over cut stops being a workflow screen and becomes a completion report: the marker, the batches it fed and how many pieces each got, the destination units, rolls consumed, scrap, cycle time, who handed it over and when, a timeline of the whole cut, and a link to the Stock Entry behind it.

That is the screen to open when someone asks what happened on a cut last Tuesday.

Settings

• Production Unit — the person's default unit.
• Cutting Parameters — max lay (plies), max lay overflow %, max table length, spreader compensation factor. These are the device-side defaults; the Work Center limits still apply.
• Visible Tabs — which of the four tabs appear in the navigation bar.
• Appearance — light, dark or auto.
• Language, Install App, version and logout.

What to do next

Read Cutting Order for the Desk-side record behind these screens, Cutting wizard for where the cuts come from, or Cutting Control for the planner's cross-order view of the same work.