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Design and Manufacturing Company Workflow Automation

See Our Designs • Mar 1, 2016

Client: See Our Designs (2016)

Overview

We implemented an end-to-end workflow that connects offshore designers, listing/publishing operations, and on-site manufacturing. The system replaces email handoffs and manual listing work with a structured, searchable process that keeps work moving across time zones and delivers a clean production queue.

Problem

  • Designers were offshore in different time zones, causing handoff delays and unclear status.
  • Store listings were manual — including discrete product image production — leading to slow updates and inconsistent quality.
  • Manufacturing relied on manually managed print files in shared folders that had to be searched repeatedly.

Solution

  • Workflow + notifications: A formal assignment → review → approval flow with robust notifications replaced ad-hoc email threads, enabling asynchronous collaboration across time zones.
  • Automated listings & images: Generated listing data from templates and pushed updates via API; automated image overlays/brand frames and stored assets by listing for consistent, publish-ready output.
  • Central database: All design and product artifacts captured in a relational database so every asset is correlated and searchable (designs ↔ listings ↔ print files ↔ work orders).
  • Manufacturing organization: Approved designs auto-generated work orders and labels, feeding a prioritized production queue so the floor always knew what was next.

How it works

  1. Ingest — Designers submit assets/specs; validations check completeness.
  2. Process — Images run through batch overlay/standardization; metadata is templated and versioned.
  3. Approve — Reviewers approve/reject with one click; notifications drive the next step.
  4. Publish — Listings and assets are pushed to the storefront/marketplaces.
  5. Make — Approved jobs create work orders; the queue updates in real time.

Tech

  • SQL (relational database)
  • ASP.NET MVC 5
  • Batch image processing
  • REST APIs
  • Job queues

Outcomes

  • Eliminated most manual listing steps; consistent, on-brand images across variants.
  • Clear status and continuous handoffs across time zones (fewer stalls, less back-and-forth).
  • Production floor moved from folder hunting to a prioritized, searchable queue of approved jobs.

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