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.
Written by Sanjeewa Dehiwalage · Free online garment-industry education
3 modules · 11 subjects Intermediate to advanced About 10–14 hours of reading and quizzes at your own pace
What this course is
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.
Who it 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
Modules
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.
3 subjects · five-question quiz
Module 2 — Flow and Capacity
Turn standard minutes into an operation bulletin, a balanced line and a capacity plan a factory can actually commit to.
4 subjects · five-question quiz
Module 3 — Lean Six Sigma for Industrial Engineering
Find the waste that actually costs money, map the value stream, and run a DMAIC project with measured before-and-after results.
4 subjects · five-question quiz
Certificate
Pass every module quiz and you can download a completion certificate from the certificate page. It is a self-study record, not an accredited qualification.