Automated Inventory and Manufacturing Execution System

Abstract

The garment industry of Pakistan, in specific the most important cloth, thread generating factories of Pakistan are still working in the old fashioned, pre-internet era manner. It is for this reason that Pakistan’s garment factories are not up to date with modern technological frameworks that are implemented in the industrial sector of other nations. This makes it difficult for us to compete in the global market. The current international standards for industrial automation that have been devised to measure the efficiency and performance of industries is known as the fourth industrial revolution or “Industry 4. 0”. Our aim is to provide cost friendly, resource efficient product to all the relevant industries of our country. Our project is targeting the garment section of industries, be it government based or private and aim to provide them with the international standard compatible software to monitor all workflows, processes, workers, entry and exit points of their business and determine their current constraints and barriers (if applicable) that were invisible before and devise more efficient working methodologies to not only improve the efficiency of each department in itself but also of the complete factory as a whole, improve their production rate while keeping the quality of the product in check. We have successfully developed an inventory management system integrated with smart decision-making capability with the help of forecasting and genetic algorithms that provide valuable support in smart decision making with regards to the management of inventory.