What is IE or Industrial Engineering?

                               

IE means Industrial Engineering. Industrial Engineering is a branch of Engineering which are always work for organization about profit optimize by increasing

productivity and development.

Increase productivity tools:

• Work study
• 5s
• Lean
• Lean six sigma etc.

Importance of Industrial Engineering in Garments Industry:

01. Synchronize and Optimize about 4M:

• Man
• Machine
• Material
• Method

02. Analyze sample.: 

• New sample development and simplify process.
• Method improvement.
• Analysis risk factor.
• Discuss to pp meeting about sewing operation.

03. Making this related document: 

• Make Operation breakdown.
• Make daily line efficiency.
• Record non productive time.
• Find out product smv.
• Thread consumption.
• Garment cm calculation.
• Make line layout.
• setup line target.
• Line balancing.
• New worker assessment.
• Weekly and monthly performance reports
• Factory KPI
• Operator Incentives plan.

04. Identifying the problem:

• Remove Bottleneck operation.
• Make department wise manpower requirement and allocation.
• Reduce wastage and non-value adding activities.
• Make Man and machine requirements for existing and upcoming style.

05. Monitor to production floor:

• Monitor Hourly production and line WIP.
• Find out Productivity and Efficiency.
• Make factory loss-Profit report.
• Monitor the production by developing process and operator skill.
• Reduce excess overtime and Labor cost.
• Worker absenteeism and turnover

06. Coordinate to planning & Marchant:

• Collect Plan from planning department to follow-up and achieve.
• Coordinate With merchandizer regarding new style.

07. Follow up to factory floor:

• Factory processes
• Product quality
• Worker safety
• Ergonomic work place

08. Improvement About:

• Garments operation.
• Working method
• Improve Layout design.
• Operator motion study
• Garments quality improve.

09. Implement to the floor:

• Lean & Lean six sigma tools
• New working method.
• New improved methods and processes

10. Maintain:

• Factory cost minimize.
• Factory all dept. database.
• 6s and house keeping.
• Machine profile.
• Work study (Time study, Motion study, Method study, Production study).
• Record worker Skill matrix.
• Make SMV data bank.