Smarter Operations for Apparel
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Choose a finishing-cell dispatch rule by the result you need, then compare earliest due date, shortest processing time and critical ratio on the same four jobs. The worked schedules distinguish lateness from tardiness and show when new arrivals.
Account for repeat inspection visits without counting them as extra garments. A closed-cohort worksheet and flow-balance example show how rework changes inspection and repair workloads, moves the bottleneck and limits sustainable release under explicit assumptions.
Sizing WIP buffers between production stages from measured arrival and wait-time data using Little's Law, and defend a lower utilisation target instead of guessing rack sizes.
You'll be able to compute the makespan-optimal run order for any two-stage flow shop (print-and-cure, fuse-and-press) by hand, and recognize the four common floor situations where Johnson's rule no longer gives the right answer.
