The most useful KPIs for a garment factory cover five areas: productivity (line efficiency, operator efficiency, capacity utilisation), quality (DHU, right first time, AQL pass rate), material (fabric consumption variance, […]
Trims and accessories are every material on a garment apart from the main fabric: thread, buttons, zippers, labels, interlinings, elastic, hangtags, polybags, cartons and stickers. They are low in value […]
Preventive maintenance (PM) means servicing sewing machines on a fixed schedule (daily cleaning, weekly checks, monthly and quarterly servicing) instead of waiting for them to break. A PM system records […]
In a piece rate system, workers are paid per unit or per operation completed instead of per day. A fair piece rate is set from the operation’s SMV multiplied by […]
Garment factory capacity is best measured in SAM (standard allowed minutes), not pieces. Monthly capacity = Number of operators × Working minutes per day × Working days × Expected efficiency. […]
Line balancing is the process of assigning sewing operations to operators so that each workstation takes roughly the same time, and work flows without piling up. You start with the […]
Fabric Consumption Fabric consumption is the quantity of fabric needed to make one garment (or one dozen). For knits, it is usually calculated by weight using body measurements and fabric […]