On the floor
What happens when we come to the mill
A plant visit is not a tour. We arrive at shift start, stand at the inspection table, and only then sit with the tickets. This page is the ordinary sequence.
A date, a host, and a list of lots
After you write, we send a one-page plan: who is coming, which halls we will walk, and which lots you have already named. You name a host who can open doors. We name the hour we will be at the gate — usually the start of the shift, not mid-morning.
The floor before the meeting room
We start at the inspection table, the greige store, or the line in dispute. A staged hour with the best operators pulled from another hall wastes the visit. We watch a live mix. We ask questions the tickets will later have to answer.
The records room
Repair bundles, incoming rejects, spectrophotometer slips, handwritten night notes, the yield figure on the wall. We reconcile them. If a number cannot be found in a ticket, we write that down instead of smoothing it.
Lots on the table
You keep the disputed rolls out, not in a trailer. We read shade, GSM, selvedge, needle damage — whatever the argument actually is. Tamar leads when the gate is the problem; Giorgi when the sewing hall is.
The briefing and the reading
Three working days after we leave, a draft goes to your named contact for factual marks. We then print a bound copy and sit with the people who can change a setting. The visit is finished when that reading has happened, not when the car leaves the yard.
Where we travel
Tbilisi, Rustavi, and the nearer Kartli plants are ordinary day trips from Paliashvili Street. Kutaisi, Gori, Batumi, and Kakheti mills usually need an overnight, which appears on the estimate. A plant we have not visited before gets a longer first afternoon; we would rather walk one extra hall than guess from the car park.
What not to prepare
Do not reprint four weeks of tickets in a new format the night before. Bring the messy originals. Do not empty the repair corner. Do not write a welcome speech. A kettle and a table that can hold rolls are more use than a projector.
Aftercare
Some plants stop at the bound briefing. Others ask for a monthly quality brief or a line capability study on the one machine the visit could not settle. Those are separate quotes. The next ordinary step, if you have not had us on site yet, is to request a visit date.