A structured 6-step workflow to configure your factory, model your process, and generate actionable cost and sustainability reports.
Start by creating a factory profile that represents a production site. The factory profile acts as the foundation for all future projects and calculations.
Store information such as utility prices, labour costs, heating source, and available equipment. These inputs are reused across multiple projects, ensuring that calculations reflect the actual operating conditions of a specific facility.
A factory profile can represent a single dyehouse, finishing plant, production line, or manufacturing location.
Once a factory has been created, define the operational parameters that drive cost and sustainability calculations.
Examples include energy prices, water and wastewater costs, labour rates, heating systems, and available production equipment. These values are used throughout the platform whenever costs, energy consumption, emissions, or resource usage are calculated.
Accurate factory parameters are essential because every project inherits these settings. Small changes in utility pricing or labour allocation can significantly affect the final cost results.
Before creating projects, configure the production environment that reflects how the factory operates.
For batch operations, this means defining the available dyeing or processing machines, including capacities, power consumption, efficiency, and operating characteristics.
For continuous production, this means creating production lines consisting of multiple process modules. These modules represent the physical workflow through which fabric passes during manufacturing.
The goal is to create a realistic digital representation of the production process before any recipes or calculations are performed.
A project represents a specific production scenario.
Projects contain information such as fabric quantity, production parameters, machine selection, process settings, and expected production volumes. Each project is linked to a factory and uses the factory's cost and utility data as the basis for calculations.
Projects allow different recipes, products, or production methods to be evaluated independently while maintaining a consistent cost structure.
Define the actual production process step by step.
For batch processes, this typically includes temperatures, heating and cooling profiles, dwell times, bath changes, and chemical additions.
For continuous processes, it involves configuring the relevant modules, water usage, temperatures, chemical recipes, and process conditions for each stage of the line.
As recipes are created, the platform converts operational data into resource consumption, process performance, environmental impact, and production cost calculations.
After the process has been defined, Loomen calculates the technical, economic, and environmental performance of the project.
Results include:
Use these insights to evaluate alternatives, compare recipes, identify optimization opportunities, and make data-driven decisions. Reports can be exported and shared with customers, management, production teams, or sustainability stakeholders.
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