The Albion Knitting Company
An example of the return of the garment manufacture and knitware industry to the UK & the first industrial scale fully fashioned flat knitting established in London in 80 years. The growth and success is dependent on maintaining a productive and motivated workforce, minimising raw material waste & maintaining a competitive position in the marketplace
“The stress and burden of filling out employee work cards or job sheet paperwork on the factory floor was eliminated.”
Key to Success
As a knitwear company, The Albion Knitting Company is an example of a manufacturing organisation that is heavily labour intensive. With a multinational & multilingual workforce, carrying out repetitive tasks, a simple & effective track and trace reporting system is vital.
The Business Need
- Reduce the impact on workforce productivity by the demands of an organisation to monitor and report on production throughput
- Save time with multilingual employees filling out paperwork for every operation carried out
- Provide clarity to the production department currently having to decipher and compile data from a variety of hand written documents in different languages
- Provide simple data capture and present worker instructions clearly to multilingual employees
- Introduce new technology to a demographic who are typically unfamiliar with IT
The Solution Provided
Implementation of TotalControlPro cloud tracking system to provide;
- Automated Performance Reports
- Shop floor data capture of job times and employee activity
- Training and enrolment of staff, unskilled in IT & not native English speaking
- Electronic audit trail for accreditation and product promise accountability
- Low Carbon-Footprint impact of system maintenance
The Impact and Results
- Approx. 30 minutes of productivity time recovered per person per day
- Electronic data capture to provide instant production output reports
- Clear protocols for addressing Quality Control Issues
- On Screen visual instructions to enable multilingual teams to work together
- Industry skilled workforce adopting technology without barriers
