Product · Sangely PLM · Digital Pattern Room

Sangely PLM
Digital Pattern Room

Deep in bags, leather goods, footwear & hats manufacturing, building the company's "R&D rapid-response hub" and "product-data strategic foundation"—— Capture sampling, material ledgers, process standards, and piece-rate payroll into one single system.

Sample work order · LIVE BOARD
PLM · v3.4
Commuter backpack · Client ZA
Pattern issued
05-12 · 14:22
Materials ready
05-13 · 09:08
Sewing trial · IN PROGRESS
2h 14m
Client sign-off
Pending
AUTO ESTIMATE · Hours + Material Pattern ✓
Quote
¥ 96.40
Hours
48.2 min
Earlier quotes
VS Traditional 1–3 days earlier
Samples in progress
128 orders
Pattern-room throughput
+38%
Material-hunt time
−72%
Pain Points

Traditional pattern room and materials
long-stuck in seven chronic pains

Order intake gets faster, but the pattern room gets messier — from sampling workflow to material ledgers, every item drags down order capacity and production efficiency.

PAIN · 01 PROCESS

Loose process discipline

No standardized sampling workflow; progress tracked manually / via WeChat nags; chaotic milestones, unclear accountability, no traceability when issues arise.

Manual tracking Unclear ownership
PAIN · 02 QUOTING

Long quoting cycle

Manual labor-hour and material calculations make quoting slow and inaccurate — by the time the quote is done, premium orders have already gone to competitors.

Manual costing Lost orders
PAIN · 03 HANDOFF

Handoff info unclear

Information passing between sales, pattern room, and production relies on word-of-mouth / Excel; process and material standards drift in transit, becoming unrecognizable by the time they reach the line.

Word-of-mouth Excel Std. deviation
PAIN · 04 COST

Cost control is hard

Material yield and labor cost without data backing; quoting disconnected from actual production; orders pile up while profit silently leaks.

No data Profit out of control
PAIN · 05 PAYROLL

No real-time performance control

No quantitative data on pattern-room performance — who's fast or slow is the supervisor's call; piece-rate payroll runs on handwritten ledgers, tedious and error-prone.

Handwritten ledgers Settlement error
PAIN · 06 SYNC

Pattern-room ↔ line disconnect

Sample data won't sync to downstream operations; process execution drifts; details confirmed by the pattern-maker get ignored as the line keeps using the old version.

Not unified Batch rework
PAIN · 07 MATERIAL

Chaotic material management

Materials pile up and waste; cataloguing is hard; reliance on veteran staff; finding one roll of leather means digging through half the warehouse; inventory is out of control year-round.

Pileup waste Reliant on veterans Inventory out of control
SUMMARY · seven pains, one system PLM · ANSWER

Seven chronic pains,
all point to the same
Missing R&D rapid-response hub

ERP handles orders, MES handles the shop floor — but from pattern to sewing to customer sign-off, this stretch used to rely on people-watching-people. PLM Digital Pattern Room captures this central hub into the system.

Process
Visual dashboard
Quote
Auto-estimate
Material
Digital stockroom
Performance
Labor-hour costing
Architecture

End-to-end Digital closed loop
Four-layer R&D hub

From customer-PDF parsing to process tracking, materials control, and labor-hour performance — a four-layer architecture top-to-bottom turns the pattern room into a data foundation.

04
LAYER
DATA APP

Data app layer

Labor-hour costing and performance stats — the data output for quoting and management decisions.

Labor-hour costing Performance stats Business reports
03
LAYER
MATERIAL

Material layer

Digital pattern-stockroom module — material registry, in/out flows, and consumption stats fully digital.

Catalog In/out Yield stats AGV integration
02
LAYER
PROCESS

Process layer

End-to-end visual dashboard — covers process management and QR-coded sample-order tracking.

Board Process QR-code tracking Milestone trail
01
LAYER
PARSE

Data parsing layer

Auto-parse customer PDFs; one-click CAD integration — design data imports fast.

PDF parsing CAD integration Parametric
Fig. 02 — Data Flow CLOSED LOOP
INPUT Customer PDF Spec · Process · Material CAD file Pattern · Parts · Sizes L1 · Data parsing layer Auto-parse · structured PARSE L2 · Process layer Visual board · Process tracking PROCESS L3 · Material layer Digital stockroom · in/out · yield MATERIAL L4 · Data app layer Hours · Performance · Reports DATA APP OUTPUT Instant quoting ¥ 96.40 Standard BOM 48 items Performance pay Auto-settle DATA FEEDBACK Quote ↔ Board ↔ Stockroom ↔ Performance SINGLE SOURCE · Unified loop
Advantages

Four setsUnderlying capability,
Rewrite the pattern-room rulebook

Instant quoting, unified information, digital pattern stockroom, quantified performance — each one ties to a measurable business outcome.

FEATURE · 01 · RESPONSE

Instant-quote response · lift Win rate

Pattern → Estimate: Auto-estimate labor and material the moment the pattern is done.
1–3 days earlier: Quote cycle 1–3 days faster than the traditional model.
Order-intake initiative : Hand over a signable quote before competitors; gain pricing leverage.
Fig. 03 — Quote-response timeline DAYS · VS PLM
Traditional · Sales → Pattern → Purchasing → Customer ≈ 5–7 days
Brief · Breakdown · RFQ · Trial · Re-cost
PLM Flow · Pattern done → auto-estimate → quote 1–3 days earlier
Pattern ✓ ↑ Quote done
Earlier quotes
1–3 days
Win rate
+34 %
Quote errors
±2 %
FEATURE · 02 · UNIFIED

Break information silos "Design-to-production unified"

1-click BOM: PLM → standardized BOM; no re-entry needed.
Every change tracked: Every change versioned, traceable, and approvable.
End old-version drift: Eliminates batch rework caused by "still working off the old version".
Fig. 04 — PLM → BOM → Line SINGLE SOURCE
PLM Data Source Design · Process · Material Standardized BOM One-click · 48 items Process work order Push to line · v3.4 Purchase list Sync to ERP Stockroom pull Outbound · auto CHANGELOG · Audit Trail v3.4 Lining denim → polyester v3.3 Hardware gold → gunmetal v3.2 Margin +2mm v3.1 Customer draft
BOM generation
1-click · 0 errors
Batch rework
−96 %
Audit trail
100 %
FEATURE · 03 · WAREHOUSE

Digital stockroom Precise cost control

Quick locate: Scan to locate bin; sharply cuts material-hunting time.
Live yield: Deducted at every pull; less reliance on veteran staff.
AGV-ready: Integrates with smart-logistics systems; future-proof for automation.
Fig. 05 — Stockroom Bin Map SCAN · LOCATE
A1
A2
A3
A4
A5
A6
A7
A8
B1
B2
B3
B4
B5
B6
B7
B8
C1
C2
C3
C4
C5
C6
C7
C8
SCAN · MT-04827 Top-grain leather → Bin B2 · 12 rolls
FEATURE · 04 · PAYROLL

Quantified KPIs · defend Profit baseline

Standard-hour formula: Precise data → piece-rate payroll that's fair and fast.
Cost structure visible: True per-product cost broken down to the process level.
Evidence-led tuning: Cut cost based on evidence, not gut feel.
Fig. 06 — Process Hours · Piece-rate Pay PAYROLL · LIVE
Sewing · Mr. Wang 142 pcs · spec 48.2m
Efficiency 92% ¥ 386.40
Edge sealing · Ms. Chen 128 pcs · spec 32.5m
Efficiency 78% ¥ 274.20
Cutting · Eng. Li 156 pcs · spec 22.0m
Efficiency 104% · over target ¥ 432.60
Shift output
¥ 12,486
Settlement error
±0.3%
READY WHEN YOU ARE

Build R&D
Rapid-response hub
captured in one system

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