Cotton Innovations Have Advanced Far Beyond The Loom
January 29, 2009 Once upon a time, mills kept track of their inventory and transactions by hand; however, new technology implemented by Cotton Incorporated has placed cotton management at users’ fingertips.
Expanding EFS
Designed to help mills, merchants, ginners and producers manage fiber inventory and quality, Cotton Incorporated’s EFS System software — introduced in 1982 — is currently used by 90% of U.S. spinning mills and 29 mills across the globe. Relying on the USDA’s HVI (High Volume Instrument) cotton fiber classification, the software helps users produce uniform blends suited for specific uses.
New EFS software this year includes MILLNet, MILLNet32, and The Art of Sweater Manufacturing.
MILLNet Management
The newest addition to the EFS System software family is Windows-based MILLNet, which is similar to the DOS-based version but offers expanded features such as contract reporting history for multiple locations and tracking and pricing shipments by contract HVI properties and multiple currencies.
MILLNet32, offered to U.S. textile mills, is an advanced Client Server Cotton Management System designed to help mills manage and analyze HVI data more efficiently with new contract management and scheduling features.
The Science Of Sweaters
Also new this year is The Art of Sweater Making — an educational, interactive program that uses film footage of actual manufacturing operations, 3-D animations and easy to understand graphics to walk users through raw cotton’s transformation into fabric and end products.
Says Cotton Incorporated’s Senior Director, Global Account Management Dennis Horstman: “These CDs give users a comprehensive overview of the range of textile processing. Understanding the basics of textile manufacturing today is vital to the industry’s evolution tomorrow.”
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EFS System software has become an industry standard.
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