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Roles of Industrial Engineering in Garments Factory

Roles of Industrial Engineering in Garments Factory

Industrial engineering (IE) plays a vital role in the apparel industry, that’s why Industrial engineering job roles are very important for the garments factory. When we need to reduce costs and improve work efficiency in this competitive era, the apparel industry hires an Industrial Engineer to do that job smartly. The apparel manufacturing industry is growing quickly by applying IE in their facility. I this article I am giving a list of IE activities in a garments factory which will help you to understand the Roles of Industrial Engineering in Garments Factory.

Roles of Industrial Engineering in Garments Factory

Objectives of Industrial Engineering (IE) in the Apparel Industry

  1. To increase productivity
  2. Process improvement by motion reduction.
  3. Reduce work in process (WIP) and remove the bottleneck.
  4. Increase the efficiency of operations
  5. Reduce man-machine ratio
  6. Process improvement to reduce cost, waste and rejection Reduce wastage and defects
  7. Fill up Key Performance Indicator (KPI) target.
  8. Keep workplace and environment safe
  9. Production planning and implementation
  10. Evaluate operator and staff performance, disciplinary matters, training needs, and career development.
  11. Set the target and make a draft, layout design of the machine requirement, material flow, and workstation to bring the best possible efficiency. Modern tools are used to design the layout.
  12. Monitor factory performance in terms of quality, delivery, cost-efficiency, and target improvements with the internal factory team and taking necessary corrective action.
  13. Manpower balancing, target setting, and monitoring achievements.

Daily Activities and Duties of an Industrial Engineer in the Apparel Industry

  1. Collect the line loading plan from the Planning Department
  2. Attend in Pre-Production (PP) meeting
  3. Collect size set sample and make operation bulletin accordingly.
  4. Collect Operation Bulletin and make a paper layout
  5. Discuss with Maintenance in-charge regarding the machine, folder, attachment, and Technical personnel for technical issues.
  6. Make discussion with a floor in-charge about layout according to paper layout
  7. Check Daily Non-productive time (NPT) and reduce machine breakdown time.
  8. Make layout according to paper layout
  9. Make line balancing according to target and capacity study during 2 – 3 days of layout
  10. Find out the bottleneck process and solve it
  11. If needed make 1-hour production study in the required process
  12. Everyday input and output monitoring
  13. Give daily production target and follow up production achievement.
  14. Hourly production follow-up
  15. Everyday 5S related activities monitoring
  16. Cross-check thread consumption for every new style.
  17. Ensure up to 65%-70% efficiency.
  18. Workstation design
  19. Operators motion development by correcting faulty motion.
  20. Reduce worker absenteeism and turnover rate
  21. 5 pcs flow by reducing WIP
  22. Reduce line setting time or throughput time.
  23. Proper utilization of manpower by reducing unnecessary helping process.
  24. Establish a meeting in-between QC and operators regarding critical points of the style while the layout.
  25. Prepare daily Man/ Machine report
  26. Developing cut to ship ratio.
  27. Work to reduce absenteeism and operator turnover

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  1. Mokulubete says

    February 27, 2020 at 11:53 pm

    Is IE the same as Apparel Engineers?

  2. Nahian Mahmud Shaikat says

    March 2, 2020 at 8:29 am

    not same, working area is different

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