Clicarity Ceramic Tiles
🔲 Industry · Ceramic & Tile Manufacturing

Which kiln is quietly costing you first quality?

Which kiln is really losing your yield. Whether whole orders ship from a single shade lot. Where breakage is actually happening.

One plant found a single kiln running twenty points below the others on first quality yield. The monthly average had absorbed it for a year.
Ceramic and tile manufacturers — batch and kiln visibility live
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 ↗

Three plants. Each one sorted the output and lost the connection to the input.

01 What comes out of the kiln

Tiles go into the kiln as one thing and come out sorted into first quality, second, and reject.

The percentages are known monthly. What is rarely known is which kiln, which cycle, which body batch produced the bad ones, because the sorting happens after the connection is lost.

First quality yield by kiln, one month
Kiln 193%
Kiln 290%
Kiln 371%
Kiln 491%

Body batch, kiln and firing cycle attach to the lot, so a twenty-point gap has a kiln attached to it.

71% → 88%on the kiln that was losing
Find out howBring last month. Fifteen minutes.
02 Shade lots and the customer who mixed them

Tiles are sorted into shade lots because no two firings are identical. A customer who receives two lots in one order will notice on the wall.

The lot is marked on the box. Whether the whole order shipped from one lot is rarely checked until the complaint arrives.

Complaints, one quarter
Mixed shade lots9 complaints
Breakage4 complaints
Wrong size sent2 complaints
Surface defect3 complaints

The order carries its shade lot. Dispatch cannot close an order that is drawing from two.

9 complaints → 1same quarter next year
Show me howFifteen minutes. Bring one order.
03 Breakage between here and there

Tiles break. In handling, in stacking, in transit. Everybody accepts a percentage.

But the percentage is a single number, so nobody knows whether it happens at the packing line, in the warehouse, or on a particular route — and therefore nobody can reduce it.

Breakage found, by where it was found
At packing0.6%
In warehouse0.9%
On arrival at customer2.4%

Counts are taken at packing, at loading and on delivery confirmation, so the loss has a location.

2.4% → 1.1%on the routes that were losing most
Show me howFifteen minutes. We split it out.

Sorting tells you what you got. It never tells you why you got it.

Every batch. Every kiln. Every grade tracked.

This is how a print job moves through your business. Clicarity gives you live visibility at every phase — and flags delays before they become client calls.

01
Raw Material & Body Preparation
4 stages
Raw Material Receipt
Clay, feldspar, quartz, and other body materials received and tested.
✓ Clicarity: Material lot number recorded — traceability from raw to finished tile
Body Mixing / Ball Milling
Body materials ball-milled to required fineness.
✓ Clicarity: Milling time and fineness logged per batch
Spray Drying
Slurry spray dried to granules of required moisture content.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: moisture deviation — pressing defects result
Glaze Preparation
Glaze materials prepared per formulation for application.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: glaze viscosity off — application defects affect entire batch
02
Pressing & Drying
3 stages
Pressing
Granules pressed into tile shape at required tonnage.
✓ Clicarity: Green tile count per press tracked — dimension check logged
Drying
Green tiles dried to remove moisture before glazing.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: drying temperature variation — warpage in fired tiles
Edge Trimming
Tile edges trimmed to required dimensions.
03
Glazing & Decoration
3 stages
Glaze Application
Glaze applied by bell, disc, or digital printing.
✓ Clicarity: Glaze weight per tile logged — deviation from standard flagged
Digital Printing
Design printed on tile surface using digital inkjet printer.
⚠ ⚠ Common delay: print head clogging — entire run affected before detected
Decoration / Embossing
Additional decoration or surface texture applied.
04
Firing
3 stages
Kiln Loading
Tiles loaded on kiln cars per stacking pattern.
Firing
Tiles fired in roller kiln at required temperature curve.
✓ Clicarity: Kiln temperature and speed logged — deviation flags immediately
Kiln Unloading
Fired tiles unloaded and cooled before grading.
✓ Clicarity: Fired tile count vs loaded count tracked — kiln yield visible
05
Grading & Dispatch
3 stages
Grading & Sorting
Tiles graded by quality — A grade, B grade, and reject.
✓ Clicarity: Grade-wise quantity logged — second grade rate visible per kiln run
Packing
Tiles packed in boxes per grade and size.
✓ Clicarity: Packed quantity vs order confirmed before dispatch
Dispatch
Order dispatched with grade certificate and delivery challan.
✓ Clicarity: Full batch history from raw material to dispatch preserved
""We used to find out about kiln parameter deviations only after the batch was graded — 40% second grade on those batches. Now kiln parameters are logged at the stage and deviations flag while we can still adjust.""
PR
Production Manager
Ceramic Tile Manufacturer — Morbi, Gujarat
As featured in PrintWeek India, April 2026 — Vol 18, Issue 12 ↗ Also in Print Bulletin, May 2026 — Pages 20–21 ↗

What improves in ceramic and tile businesses using Clicarity

↓ 45%
Second grade output from kiln deviation
↑ 32%
On-time dispatch improvement
↓ 35%
Body preparation waste
5 days
To go live — full setup included

Questions from ceramic tiles businesses

How does Clicarity work for a printing business specifically?
Clicarity is configured around your specific print workflow — pre-press, printing, finishing, dispatch — in your terminology. Every job gets a unique ID and moves through your defined stages. You see live status, timestamps, and alerts when a job sits too long at every stage. The Clicarity team builds everything for you. You go live in 5 days.
Does it work for both offset and digital printing?
Yes. Clicarity works for any print process — offset, digital, wide format, screen printing, or a combination. The stages are configured around your actual workflow. If offset jobs go through plate making and digital jobs skip that stage, both can be tracked correctly under the same system.
Can it track material wastage at each stage?
Yes — with the Multi Licence. At every stage, your team logs quantity in and quantity out. Clicarity calculates the loss automatically. You see wastage by stage, by job, live — not at month-end when nothing can be done about it.
Will my press operators actually use it?
Yes. The update screen has two fields — Job ID and status. Under a minute. No training needed. GP Offset's entire team was using it from day one, including floor workers who had never used a software system before.

See every batch. Every kiln. Before the grade drops.

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