Definition:
According to American Institute of Industrial Engineers(AIIE) defines 'Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated system of men, materials and equipment.
Application of Industrial Engineering in Garment Industry
Industrial Engineering concepts are used in garment manufacturing to fulfill the following purposes -
- Monitoring production floor and having better control over the production floor
- Improving processes and improving method of working to increase factory's overall performance and standardized garment manufacturing processes
Overall application of Industrial engineering can be explained better by describing common tasks of the IE department. Common tasks of an IE department are as following but not limited to these
- Work measurement of sewing operations, cutting room jobs and finishing jobs
- Setting standard time for sewing operations and manual operations
- Style analysis and conducting research and development (R&D) of the styles
- Improving method of work and design workstation
- Production planning and factory capacity determination
- Work aids development
- Work station designing and machine layout planning
- Labor cost estimation
- Performance measuring of workers
- Training of workers (sewing operators)
- Designing incentive scheme and calculating incentive for sewing operators
- Setting line production target of the sewing lines and chasing production from line supervisors and operators
- Application of lean tools
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