Essay On Sewing Room Capacity

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Sewing Room Capacity Capacity planning or production planning is generally done based on sewing capacity. The knowledge of the capacity in other processes is also very essential, if not production planner could fail and will not be able to meet the dead line (Jacob 1988; Schertel 1998). The formula used for calculating available capacity of the sewing line has been given below. Sewing room Capacity per Day= {(No. of machine x daily work hours x 60) – absenteeism %} x Efficiency % (unit in minutes) Monthly Capacity = Daily Capacity X No. of working days in a month The capacity of a production line depends on the average efficiency of the line and operator absenteeism. For example, a factory floor has 5 lines. Factory works for 8 hours day. Number of total …show more content…

In an 8 hours shift day he produces 390 pieces. Operator was idle ‘waiting for work’ for 20 minutes and his machine broke down for 20 minutes in hours shift. Then, the operator’s on-standard efficiency is given by = (390 x 0.55) / {480 – (20 + 20)}*100% = 48.75% 18.8 Determination of efficiency of a production line Similar to the calculation of individual operator efficiency, the efficiency of a production line could also equally vital for an apparel industry (Mannan & Ferdousi 2007). To calculate the efficiency of a line for a day, the following data is needed from the line supervisor in the apparel industry. 1. No. of operators worked in the line in a day 2. Working hours in the line in a day 3. Production in pieces at the end of the day 4. Expected garment SAM for the particular style From the above information, the following factors have to be determined. 1. Total minutes produced by the line: To get total produced minutes multiply production pieces by SAM 2. Total minutes attended by the all operators in the line: Multiply number of operators by daily working hours and convert total hours into total minutes (multiplying by

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