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| Designing a Multi-Storey Factory II
An Ideal Layout Plan for Smooth
Work Flow |
| Much effort is expended in garment factories in moving work from machine to
machine and department to department. This is an additional exercise for
which the customer does not pay! How the work moves through the factory is,
of course, to a large degree dictated by the building in which it is housed. |
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| It Is Time To Go “Back To The Basics ‘Ask Yourself’ |
| Remaining both profitable and competitive is probably more intense and challenging today
than at any time during the last 40 years in the garment industry. Manufacturers have
principally reduced their costs to what they perceive to be the minimum; however, economic
pressures require manufacturers to again re-examine their businesses and see where they
can “cut further fat”. |
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| Productivity in Apparel Manufacturing
BACK TO BASICS |
| The task of a manager of an apparel
manufacturing firm, in the new
millennium, has become quite
challenging. The growing international
competition has put a lot of pressure
on the apparel manufacturers to
produce quality products at
competitive prices and deliver them to
the customer just-in-time. |
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| What is Acceptable Quality Level? |
| AQL is one of the most f requently
used terms when it comes to quality
in the apparel export industry.
Everyone in the industry uses this term
quite liberally, assuming that he knows
what AQL signifies little realising the logic
behind it, its effective use and most
importantly, it true meaning. What was
the logic behind it? How does one use it
effectively? |
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| Phase 1 - Spreading and Cutting
Why Automated Systems
Fail in India |
| The traditional way of spreading and cutting is a thing of the past in most
Western countries. Due to immense pressure in the apparel industry to
improve productivity, Indian exporters have no choice but to follow the
trend. It is one thing to have a good idea, but quite another to implement
it. |
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