Creating and maintaining a good work flow with both your embroidery processes and paper work is extremely important to any sized embroidery organization.

I am currently working with a company that has been in the embroidery business for many years, but has recently been sold. This is a medium sized company with several multi-head embroidery machines that creates a top quality finished product!

The new owners are… keeping the same management in place and want to increase their embroidery production flow using all of the same equipment that is currently in production with no plans of any new equipment purchases in the near future. This can be done, but first a new organization plan must be put into effect. By that I mean a work flow organization that also includes a change in the paper work flow and some of the current production processes.

After reviewing many of the current processes I am finding out that a lot of time is wasted in their movements during the processes and going from one process to another. It is extremely important to know exactly how much time it takes to do every single step within the entire manufacturing or embroidery process.

This process starts at the exact moment that an order is taken and continues through all of the steps of planning and manufacturing right up until it is billed. Each one of these steps has a time and cost associated with it. The work flow should be time studied at each stage of development to see if there is another way or movement that can be changed or incorporated to help the process be done more efficiently and quickly. It is very important to keep track of each one of these steps in the total process.

I have found that in most cases there is not enough thought put into the planning process before each step. This is especially important as a small embroidery business is growing and expanding into a larger organization.

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