AccuMark brings improved work order management and increased visibility to work in process in the cutting room by integrating with Gerber’s automated spreading and cutting systems. Steve Park, vice president and general manager of Gerber’s Sewn Goods business, said, “By integrating information among our AccuMark CAD software and our spreading and cutting systems, we significantly improve productivity in the cutting room, reduce errors caused by manual data entry, and provide managers real-time visibility to the status of their work in process.”

With AccuMark’s Easy Plan module, businesses can automate basic production planning. Operators simply input the details of a work order, including all sizes, colors and quantities desired. AccuMark then calculates the number of markers required for the job. To accelerate and error proof the production process even further, AccuMark generates a bar code that contains the file name, material type and number of plies needed for the spread. Spreader and cutter operators can then easily scan the bar code to locate the correct file to be spread and cut.

From the design to the cut room, AccuMark brings additional productivity and efficiency through its ability to communicate with existing business enterprise systems to accept and process orders. For example, when retail orders are collected by an ERP system, AccuMark can collect and process those orders, and communicate statistical information back to the ERP system after orders have been processed. The software’s batch processing capability not only reduces the entire order processing time from minutes to seconds, it eliminates errors caused by manual order entry and processing. This is particularly useful in made-to-measure and mass customization environments.