GARMENT MANUFACTURIGN PROCESS

1 Industry Background

The research is conducted in garment industry whose major products are Men’s formal shirt in various order size. The factory consists of central cutting department, 3 independent stitching lines and central finishing (packing) section. Generally, operators are responsible for the quality of individual work, even after that there is quality check (audit) at the end of each section (department) so that there should not be any defective parts transferred from one section to another section. The overall production flow chart of the shop floor is shown in Figure 3.

Layout Design And Assembly Line Balancing For Garments Industries

Layout Design For Garments Industries

Layout is one of the key decisions that determine the long-run efficiency of operations.Layout has numerous strategic implications because it establishes an organization’s competitive priorities in regard to the capacity, processes, flexibility and cost as well as quality of work life, customer contact and image. An effective layout can help an organization to achieve a strategy that supports differentiation, low cost, or response (Heizer et al., 2000, p. 336). The layout must consider how to achieve the following:

1. Higher utilization of space, equipment, and people.

2. Improved flow of information, material or people.

3. Improved employee morale and safer working conditions.

4. Improved customer/client interaction.

5. Flexibility (whatever the layout is now, it will need to change).

Knowledge about time studies & method studies for Industrial Engineering.

Time Studies

The classical stopwatch study, or time study, originally proposed by Federic W. Taylor in 1881, is still the most widely used time study method. The time study procedure involves the timing of a sample of worker’s performance and using it to set a standard. A trained and experienced person can establish a standard by following these eight steps (Heizer et al., 2000, p. 409-412).

1. Define the task to be studied (after methods analysis has been conducted).

2. Divide the task into precise elements (parts of a task that often takes no more than a few seconds).

3. Decide how many times to measure the task (the number of cycles of samples needed).

4. Record elemental times and rating of performance.

5. Compute the average observed cycle time. The average observed cycle time is the arithmetic mean of the times for each element measured, adjusted for unusual influence for each element :