Cut and account for factory waste on one production floor
Your factory cuts and sews a steady programme and currently sends most of its fabric waste to a broker with no record of where it goes. Management wants a plan that reduces waste and can be shown to a buyer.
Who this is for: Production, cutting room, industrial engineering and compliance staff.
What you produce: A waste balance for one month plus a reduction plan with owners, and the record you would keep to prove it.
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Task 1
Build a material balance for one month: fabric received, fabric issued, garments cut, cutting waste, sewing rejects, remnants and fabric still in store.
What a good answer contains: A good answer closes: everything received is output, loss or stock. Gaps are named as gaps rather than smoothed over.
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Task 2
Split the waste by cause — marker efficiency, end losses, fabric defects, spreading errors, style changes, rejects — and estimate the share of each.
What a good answer contains: A good answer uses the factory's own records to split the causes and states where the split is an estimate.
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Task 3
Choose the three actions with the best return, price each at the order's fabric rate, and name the owner and the measure of success.
What a good answer contains: A good answer converts percentage gains into money at a stated fabric price, and avoids actions that just move waste to another department.
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Task 4
Describe the traceability record you would keep for the waste that still leaves the factory.
What a good answer contains: A good answer records quantity, composition, the receiving party and what they do with it, and admits that a broker's word alone is not traceability.
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