This guide explains how to map garment flow, identify bottlenecks and connect conveyors with production status, RFID, assembly and human workstations. The physical design and software logic must be engineered together.
Map the current garment journey
Start with the real path from cleaning machines through tunnel or pressing, quality control, assembly, bagging, storage and dispatch. Record every wait, reverse movement, manual search and crossing point.
- Incoming rail and cleaning-machine offload
- Tunnel and manual pressing branches
- Quality-control and rework loop
- RFID or barcode assembly point
- Bagging, storage and final dispatch
Give every transfer a purpose
A transfer point should identify, inspect, sort, count or route the garment. Unnecessary arms and gaps create congestion and maintenance without creating information.
- Correct side and direction of travel
- Reach and safety for each operator
- Capacity between dependent stations
- Single defined offload at the final stage
- Manual exception rail alongside automation
Connect movement to production status
Software can use scans or RFID reads to confirm that an item entered or completed a stage. The status should reflect a meaningful operational event and be reversible when rework is required.
- Designed scan or read points
- Order and item identity
- Rework and quality-hold state
- Assembly position assignment
- Ready and dispatch completion
Conveyor design requires dimensional drawings, load calculations, guarding, emergency stops, maintenance access and specialist approval. A marketing diagram is not an engineering drawing.
This page provides general operational awareness. Always follow care labels, safety data sheets, equipment instructions, workplace procedures, testing requirements and professional judgement.