Operations, analytics & technology for apparel and textile manufacturing
Fibre to finished garment: spinning, weaving, wet processing, apparel engineering and quality systems.
7 published articles across 5 sub-categories
In the Ready-Made Garments (RMG) industry, the cutting room is the heartbeat of production. While sewing often gets the spotlight, cutting is the foundational step that determines both the quality of the final garment and the profitability of the entire order. Fabric accounts for
A step-by-step account of replacing push scheduling between the cutting room and the sewing floor with a two-bin kanban, including the card calculation and the first three weeks of failure modes.
Direct and indirect count systems, the conversion factors that matter, and how count interacts with GSM, cover factor and the price you quote.
RFT rates below 80 per cent are almost never a dye problem. They are a control problem — salt dosing, temperature ramp, liquor ratio and substrate preparation, in that order.
SMV sits underneath your CM price, your line plan and your efficiency figure. Get the rating and allowances wrong and every number downstream is wrong in the same direction.
How to pick the right sample size and acceptance number, what AQL does not promise, and the four mistakes that turn a passing inspection into a rejected shipment.
Fabric is 55 to 65 per cent of garment cost. A two-point improvement in marker efficiency is worth more than most sewing floor projects, and it costs almost nothing to implement.