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Saturday 28 September 2013

implementation of lean manufacturing



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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