Due to different factors which mainly include labor wages
garments industry is shifting to underdeveloped countries. The other
factors include availability of material, the specific market nature of the
industries for example: the short production trend, high volatility, low
predictability, high level of impulse purchase, the quick market response;
garment industries are facing the greatest challenges these days Developing countries has mainly edge in labor side, except
Bangladesh all have their own in house material for denim industry. Cheap labor
also result in low productivity in developing countries. For example,
labor is very
cheap in Bangladesh
but the productivity is poor among
other developing countries. To avoid
fabric utilization (which have main cost in production) has improved so much in
past year by induction of CAD/CAM. Now the main things to focus is Labor
productivity for fashion industry (making short orders in minimum time) because
now a days there contribution is getting more in industry. Even today,
industries are getting the same or more volumes (orders), but the number of
styles they have to handle has increased drastically. Earlier if industry had
orders of same style no matter how much time but now if industry have order of
even two or more weeks they(orders) include different styles which also have
more fashion then basic. The garment industry now has to produce multiple
styles even within a
day; this needs
higher flexibility in
volume and style
change over
In developing countries it has been observed that garment
industry is just like a home business which lacks skilled personnel and courage
to change this trend. the business is running from years as long as profits are
coming but now as the competition is rising it is need to improved productivity
by inducing skills to remain in markets.
The volatility in styles can only be address by flexibility
in manufacturing styles. and to cope up with this best method is introducing
lean manufacturing. this will reduce time, increased profits, reduce our
inventory, and by training of operator will reduce re-work.
So i work on implementation of lean manufacturing in apparel industry to reduce production time.
following is a link to view my project:
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