What Is Dye Lot Management Software?

What is a dye lot?

A dye lot is a quantity of yarn, fabric or garments dyed together to the same shade, usually in one or more batches using the same recipe. Material from one lot should match in shade; material from different lots may vary slightly. That is why dye houses, hosiery units and their customers care about lot identity from start to finish.

What dye lot management software does

Dye lot management software records each lot through the dye house and keeps its history. A typical lot record includes:

• The party, material type and quantity received.
• The required shade and the recipe used.
• The batch or batches the lot was dyed in.
• Dyes and chemicals consumed.
• Quality check results, including any re-processing.
• Delivery date and challan.

Problems it solves in a dye house

Without lot tracking, a dye house relies on registers and memory. When a party calls to ask about their material, someone has to search through books or walk the floor. When a shade complaint comes in weeks later, there may be no reliable record of what recipe and batch were used.

Lot management software makes these answers immediate: status is visible, history is searchable and responsibility for each step is clear.

Lot tracking and re-processing

Lots that fail shade or quality checks are re-processed. If re-processing is not recorded, the dye house loses visibility into how often it happens and how much extra dye, chemical and machine time it uses. Recording re-processing against the lot keeps the true history and helps identify recipes or processes that need attention.

Who needs it

• Hosiery dye houses doing job work for multiple parties.
• Yarn dyeing units.
• Fabric dyeing and processing units.
• Manufacturers with an in-house dyeing department.

Marc Dye

Marc Dye, developed by Marc Infotech in Ludhiana, is dye-house software built for the hosiery industry. It covers dye lot tracking, recipe management, batch production, material consumption, quality control and delivery status, and can be used with Marc ERP for GST billing and accounts.