Faisalabad · served from Islamabad
Software development for Faisalabad’s mills and exporters
We build mill ERP, production tracking and export order systems for Faisalabad’s spinning, weaving, processing and stitching units, from our office in Islamabad. The aim is software that follows the material from bale to carton, and a cost sheet that keeps up when energy prices move.
Part of our work across Pakistan: software house in Pakistan
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The market
Building software for Faisalabad
Faisalabad is the centre of Pakistan’s textile manufacturing, and its economy follows the fibre. Spinning mills turn cotton bales into yarn, weaving sheds and a huge power loom sector turn yarn into greige cloth, processing houses dye, print and finish it, and stitching units make home textiles and garments for export. The Clock Tower and its eight bazaars still anchor the cloth trade in the old centre, while newer plants have been set up on FIEDMC’s estates, including the M-3 Industrial City. The University of Agriculture keeps the city close to the farms that grow the cotton in the first place.
Each of those stages has its own software problem, and a generic ERP tends to handle the accounts well and the floor badly. Material changes unit as it moves: cotton by weight, yarn by count and weight, fabric by the metre, made-ups by the piece, with wastage at every step. Cloth goes out to another unit for dyeing or stitching and has to come back reconciled. Energy is a large share of cost, so when gas or electricity tariffs move, last week’s export quote can quietly turn into a loss. And foreign buyers now audit far more than the product itself.
We work with Faisalabad businesses from our office in Islamabad. We have no office or staff in Faisalabad and we will not pretend otherwise. What we offer instead is a small senior team where the engineer who walks your process with you is the one who designs and builds the system. For floor-level work a visit to the mill is usually worth making, and Faisalabad is a motorway drive away. Everything else runs remotely on the same clock as you, invoiced in rupees, with the code and documentation handed over as yours.
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What is specific
What building for Faisalabad actually requires
Every stage keeps its own units
A mill system has to follow a lot from bale to yarn to greige to finished cloth, converting units and recording wastage at each step, so that a shortfall at dispatch can be traced to the stage that caused it. Job work complicates it further: yarn or fabric that belongs to a customer passes through your unit and must be accounted for separately from your own stock. We model those stages and ownership rules first, because they decide the rest of the design.
Costing that moves with the tariff
Gas, electricity and cotton prices change faster than most costing spreadsheets are updated. We build cost sheets from their drivers, such as energy per kilogram of yarn, conversion charges and dyes and chemicals, so a new tariff or rate is entered once and its effect on every open quote and order is visible. Export prices are usually agreed in dollars while costs are paid in rupees, so the exchange rate behind each quote is recorded instead of forgotten.
Export orders the buyer can audit
An export order moves through lab dips, strike-offs, pre-production samples, inspection and shipment, and the buyer wants to know where it stands at each point. The same buyers audit working conditions, chemical use and, increasingly, the origin of the cotton. We build order tracking that captures this as the work gets done, so status updates and audit evidence come from one set of records, not a week of gathering files before the auditor arrives.
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Working together
How working with us goes from Faisalabad
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Walk one order through the unit
Before any design, we trace a real order with the people who run it, from yarn issue to dispatch, and note every point where the numbers stop matching. That walk decides what we build first.
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One stage, then the next
We would rather get one working module onto your floor, for weaving or processing, than promise a whole-mill ERP that arrives in one piece a year later. Each stage earns the supervisors’ trust before the next connects to it.
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Screens built for the shift
Supervisors enter production on a phone or tablet in the shed, with Urdu labels and large controls. Entries save without a signal and sync when the connection returns, so a power cut does not lose a shift’s figures.
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Connected to what you keep
We integrate with the accounting package you already trust instead of forcing a replacement, and hand over the code, documentation and admin access so the system stays yours.
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Services
What we build for Faisalabad clients
Project delivery, owned end to end. We take on the outcome rather than supplying engineering hours.
Working with Yarqat in Faisalabad
Do you have an office in Faisalabad?
No. Yarqat’s only office is in E-11/2, Islamabad, and we have no staff or address in Faisalabad. Day to day we work on calls and shared tools in the same timezone, and you can look at the system in progress whenever you want. For a mill or production system we will normally suggest at least one visit, because the floor explains things a video call cannot. Invoices are in rupees under a Pakistani contract.
We already run an accounting package. Do we have to replace it?
Usually not. Most of the difficulty in a textile business sits upstream of the accounts: production, stock at each stage, job work and wastage. We normally leave finance where it is and build the floor-level system that feeds it, with an integration so figures are not typed twice. If your current package genuinely cannot do what you need, we will say so and explain the alternatives before you spend anything.
Is this only for large mills, or can a power loom unit use it too?
A smaller unit needs a smaller system, and it can still be worth building. For a loom shed that might mean loom-wise production per shift, beam and yarn issue, and weaving charges for job work, running on a phone, with none of the modules a composite mill needs. We scope to the size of the business, so the cost reflects the problem you have rather than a package price.
Can production figures come straight from our machines?
Sometimes. Many newer looms and spinning machines can report output and stoppages electronically, and where they do we can collect that data instead of relying on a supervisor’s tally. Older power looms usually cannot, so we start with quick manual entry per shift and add sensors only where the saving clearly pays for them. The reports read the same either way, so one floor can mix both.
Can you help us prepare for buyer compliance audits?
We can make the records dependable. That means capturing attendance, wages, chemical stock and lot traceability as part of daily work, with documents stored against the right order or batch, so an audit pack becomes a report you run. We are software engineers, not auditors or certification consultants, so the standards themselves remain between you and your buyer.
Have a project in Faisalabad?
Tell us what you are building or fixing. We work with Faisalabad clients from our Islamabad office, in the same timezone and the same currency, and the engineer who reads this is the one who would run the delivery.
- 01A senior engineer reads it. Not a form queue, and not an account manager.
- 02We reply either with questions or with a straight answer that we are not the right fit.
- 03If it looks like a fit, a technical call with the person who would actually run the delivery.
- 04Then scope, effort and risk in writing, before anyone signs anything.