What breaks when a job card goes missing?

When a paper job card goes missing, the order effectively goes missing too. The card holds the sizes, the colours, the fabric or material, who did each stage and when. Without it, nobody knows what was planned, what is done, or what is still owed. A photo of every card, read and saved as it moves, removes that risk.

What is on a job card?

In a typical garment or small manufacturing unit, one card travels with each order. It usually carries:

• the style or design number
• the size split and total pieces
• material and swatches pinned to it
• who did cutting, stitching, checking and packing
• start and end dates for each stage

It is a good system. It is also one piece of paper.

What usually goes wrong?

• It gets lost between stages, or under a pile at checking.
• It gets misread. Handwriting, a smudge, a correction in the margin.
• It is late. The card says cutting is done, but nobody told stitching.
• Nobody can see it from outside. The owner on the phone can’t check the card on the floor.

How do you keep the card but lose the risk?

You don’t need to replace the card. Keep it. Just take a photo of it at each stage. If a system reads the photo and saves what it says, the paper can get lost and the order still exists.

That is one of the first things we built into Kyrra: send a photo of the card, and it becomes the record.