specifications
tutorial and demo

To navigate to the specifications within a product, tap Product Information on the top menu bar.

And then locate the product by scrolling, or by searching for a product by using the search bar function.

Once in a product, tap the Measurements button in the product menu bar.

The default mode for a toggle switch is off. To turn it on, just tap the toggle and it’ll turn to by switching it on, you’re allowing your integrated suppliers to see information in this section, as well as the information, is visible in the documentation that is submitted to a supplier, or downloaded green indicating that it is switched on.

At the top of the page is a space for general comments you wish to share with your collaborators, whether that be your internal team or supply chain.

All you have to do to make it visible outside of your organisation is to turn the toggle on, and your team and suppliers will also be able to see those comments.

Import is a simple function, all you have to do is to start typing the CAD file code/description in the search bar, and Bombyx will start to filter through the CAD files within the library for you.

Once the required CAD file appears in your search results, tap the item to import it.

Next to the search bar there is a dropdown with 2 options, library, and product.

Library is the default selection, meaning that the item you’re importing is coming from the library.

Selecting ‘product’ from the dropdown will drop in the CAD file already imported in another product.

Once you’ve selected Product from the dropdown, another dropdown will appear in which you can then search for a product number/description, and as you type Bombyx will start to filter out the results based on your search. 

Once you’ve found the CAD file you want to bring into that specific product, tap the selection and all the items from that product will appear. Note that you can’t bring in a CAD file from a different grading group. For example, if the product has a CAD file that’s associated with ‘Outerwear’, you can’t bring in a CAD file from a product with a CAD file associated with ‘dresses’.

If something has changed on your point of measure and a POM image needs updating, in the action panel at the far right of the row, tap the upload icon button.

A popup will appear in which you can drag and drop the image into the grey box, or you can tap the upload icon in the bottom right corner of the grey pop, and select the image from your computer.

Once the image has been selected, a preview of that image will be displayed in the ‘Uploaded Image and Crop Preview’ area where you can then crop the image to focus on a preferred area by dragging one of the square crop handles in the corners of the crop area.

Once you’re happy with the cropping position, tap the ‘Upload Image’ button.

To add a single pom to the library, in the action panel of each POM row there is the add/update to library icon.

Tapping this will take that individual POM image update back to the POM library.

To add multiple poms into the library, you can do this by selecting the checkboxes down the left hand side of the POMs you want to update, and then tap the add/update to library icon, that is located next to the search bar function.

On the far right hand side of the POM rows there is an Action column, locate the ‘delete’ icon, and tap it to remove this line from your CAD specifications.

If you’ve made a mistake, you can re-import it from the search bar above the area. Tap the CAD File from the selection, and the deleted measurement will reappear.

If you want to delete multiple CAD File Specifications at once, select the checkboxes down the left side of the POMs, and tap the ‘delete’ button, positioned three buttons away from the search bar function.

A popup will appear asking you if you’re sure you’d like to delete the selected POMs, if you select ‘Yes’, those POMs will disappear, if you select ‘No’ your POMs will remain.

Once you’ve entered a measurement, all the cells in that row will become highlighted in an amber colour to show what has been changed.

This is useful for your team and supply chain to follow the changes easily. If this is the first time you are setting this up, and submitting it to your suppliers, you may want to tap ‘Clear Highlight’.

Once you’ve started to add in measurements, or if they have been imported from a spec template, you can review and edit your gradings within the product.

Tapping ‘Show Gradings’ will show the grading of each size surrounding the sample size.

To hide them again just tap the ‘Hide Gradings’ button.

If you’ve made a mistake in your grading groups or spec templates, but have already imported them into your product, you can change the grading within that product and it will not be reflected anywhere else.

Maybe for this specific product, it has a slightly different grade because of how the material is reacting and it’s a one-time/rare occurrence so you are using a similar grade, and altering it just for this product, with no need to have it as a grading group in the future.

If for whatever reason you need to export your products specifications and/or its gradings,

Tap ‘Export Excel’, and this will download an excel document with the information shown on the system.

If grading is hidden, the excel sheet will not show any grading in the document, and if the grading is visible on the screen when you download the excel sheet, the gradings will also be applied to the excel document.

Although your measurement unit will be set to cm or inches by your company administrator, there may be times when you want to convert these measurements.

All you have to do is tap the sliding button and it will take you from centimetres to inches. When inches are selected, you have a further option to view your inches in decimals or fractions.

Tap the sliding button, and it will change the view of your measurements to the selected view.

The weight/volume section is not just for apparel, if your product is homeware/accessories etc, you can enter specifications for your products here

weight could be used for apparel, select your size from the dropdown, follow on to enter the weight, and the unit of measure from the dropdown.

If your product is not apparel, you will enter the volume and unit for that product.

if you need to add multiple, tap the plus icon in the action panel. a new table will become visible underneath, once finished entering your products specifications, tap save

Or to delete the last imported table, tap the delete icon in the action panel.

Marking it as complete is a simple action of checking the ‘Mark as Complete’ checkbox.

Doing this updates your product progress to give you and your team a clear understanding of where your product is at in its lifecycle, and to know where it is not complete and needs further action.