Industrial Engineering and Production Planning for Garment Factories
Measure the work, balance the line, plan the capacity and improve the process with lean and Six Sigma tools.
A free, self-paced industrial engineering course for apparel factories: method study and time study, standard minute values, operation bulletins, line balancing, capacity and production planning, and lean and DMAIC improvement applied to real sewing floors. Three modules, each ending with a five-question quiz.
- 3 modules · 11 subjects
- About 10–14 hours of reading and quizzes at your own pace
- 3 quizzes to check your understanding
- Written by Sanjeewa Dehiwalage
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Who this course is for
- Industrial engineers and IE trainees in apparel factories
- Production supervisors and line chiefs
- Planners who must commit to a delivery date
- Merchandisers who need to test a factory's capacity claim
What you will be able to do
- Run a time study and calculate a standard minute value with rating and allowances
- Build an operation bulletin and balance a line against a target output
- Convert available minutes and efficiency into a defensible capacity figure
- Identify the bottleneck and the waste that cost the most, in that order
- Structure an improvement project through DMAIC with measured before and after
Preview module
Module 1 — Work Measurement
Measure an operation properly: improve the method first, then time it, rate it, add allowances and state the standard minute value with its basis.
Sample quiz question from this module
Observed time is 0.80 minutes, rating 110% and allowances 15%. What is the standard minute value?
- A. 0.88
- B. 1.01
- C. 0.92
- D. 0.80
Show the answer
B. 1.01 — 0.80 × 1.10 = 0.88 basic; 0.88 × 1.15 ≈ 1.01 minutes standard.
Self-study material. It is not an accredited qualification and no examination board has assessed it. Progress is kept on your device, and on your account once you sign in.
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