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EMBROIDERY
A few steps away from success
Increasing embroidery productivity is an ever-important industry goal. Alison Harrison,
head of GSUK’s techonolgy team gives us the lowdown on ways to improve your output.
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here are many ways productivity may be the blue lines can be connected along the top Load in your embroidery file. If it wasn't created
increased, you may look at machines that underneath where the yellow will be stitched. in the ApS-Ethos software, then you can use the
stitch faster, have more needles or more convert to outlines tool to create the outlines. Now
heads. A new machine that stitches quicker will Step 2. Now we need to create select the objects you want to join and go to the
almost certainly help increase production, but the green step stitch at the top Outlines menu and make embroidery object.
that’s an expensive solution to a small problem. of the shield. Holes may be left
There is a far more cost effective way, if you know automatically using either the
where to find it. step shape cut away or the
Some of you may remember the days when branching tool. Then we run down to the lower
embroidery machines had no thread trimmers and green and create the vertical lines, again
a limited jump stitch capability. The embroiderer connecting these along the top
relied on the skill of the digitiser to create the (before) (after)
design in such a way that the machine limitations Step 3. Now we can do the
were not an issue. yellow border and then the Monogramming
For the last few years embroidery software step stitch shape on top. If your customer has sent you a series of names
companies have been investing a huge amount of that need embroidering, you can save a significant
time simplifying and automating the digitising Step 4. The final step is to amount of time by using the namedrop function. If
process. The result is we now have the ability to embroider the black, we will do the black first you get your customer to supply the names in a
create embroidery designs very quickly, but for using the branching tool, this digital form then you can copy and paste these
some designs going back to the basic principles of automatically joins up the into Ethos and the names will be automatically
digitising and spending an extra few minutes on outlines and stitches them in generated. As well as saving time on the
your computer as well as using some of the the most efficient way generation of these names, it also removes any
powerful production tools in ApS-Ethos software, possible. chance of typing errors.
may save you a huge amount of time in When the lettering is created you need to exit
production far more than increasing the speed of adjacent to the next letter to avoid thread trims.
your embroidery machine.
One of the best ways of increasing production is Improving your existing designs
shortening the sewing time. This can be achieved Here are a few of the tools available in the ApS-
by removing un-necessary thread trims and colour Ethos software that enable you to reduce the run
changes. time of a design.
Here is a design that currently takes 20 minutes
to run on a machine stitching at 1200 spm. By re- STEP CUT AWAY
digitising or editing this using the Ethos Remove unwanted blocks of stitching by using the
embroidery software we have managed to reduce step shape cut away tool. Simply select the fill
the sewing time by 7.5 minutes by removing stitch and the castle then right click and select The commitment to increase the number of
thread trims and colour changes. If you have a Step Shape Cut software developers working on the ApS-Ethos
production run of 60 shirts away. You can see suite of software guarantees that it remains at the
on a 4 head machine the the blue step cutting edge of embroidery software. Coupled with
time saved just on this one stitch underneath the experienced support team available to assist
job would be just over 1 the castle has and train on future products the ApS-Ethos
hour and 52 minutes. been removed. software is a definite advantage to any garment
This has reduced the stitch count by 500 decoration company within the textiles industry for
Step 1. We will sew the blue diamonds first, this stitches. now and the future.
way we can run underneath the green to get to GS UK can offer your company the complete
each of the blue diamonds without trimming. Then MAKE EMBROIDERY OBJECT Embroidery package, including Brother Embroidery
change to running stitch to go The make embroidery object tool will take a design Machines, ApS-Ethos Software, a full Design
from the diamonds to the vertical that has already been digitised and order it in such Service and a complete range of Embroidery
blue lines, it's quicker for the a way that all the jump stitches and thread trims Supplies.
machine to sew the few extra are removed and it stitches in the most efficient For more information please contact our Sales
stitches than it is to slow down, way possible. You can use this tool to improve team on 0115 8448000, email
sales@gs-uk.com or
stop, trim and then start again. All designs that have already been digitised. visit our website a
www.gs-uk.com
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