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6 Metrics To Track Your Factory Cutting Today!
Cutting is considered to be the most important operation in apparel manufacturing because firstly, it handles the costliest material resource – the fabric. Secondly, the spreading and cutting process...
View ArticleCut to Ship Ratio – An Incomplete Judge.
One of the most well defined parameters used today to identify the efficiency in processes of factories is Cut to Ship Ratio. Cut to Ship Ratio: is the percentage of garments shipped out of total no of...
View Article8 Fabric Losses Your Factory Faces Today
Fabric is the core of apparel manufacturing making up to 70% of the total cost of the garment. Several studies have been carried out with the aim to reduce fabric wastage in the production process. In...
View Article8 Ways To Minimize The Fabric Losses In Your Factory
In my previous article, I elaborated on the 8 Fabric Losses Your Factory Faces Today. These losses in the factory can be minimized by adapting simple practices, to ensure maximum utilization of your...
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ARE YOU WASTING FABRIC IN CUTPLAN?
Production planning in sewn product manufacturing is very important. An experienced planner survives the most uncertain environment. His duty is to plan resources and material in an way that he can...
View ArticleToo much inventory cost? Track your stock with these 7 metrics
“Knowing what you’ve got, knowing what you need, knowing what you don’t – that’s inventory control.” The quote from the movie “Revolutionary Road” aptly describes the concept of inventory management....
View ArticleWhy Your Best Factory Plans Fail To Produce Visible Results?
Not long ago, we repeatedly struggled to plan and execute our travel time. For instance, if our office was 20 km away from the house, at 40 km/ hour, we would plan to reach office within 30-35 minutes....
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Cutting Room Consultancy – Fact over fancy
“Waste not, want not. Old proverbs die hard even when the business is contemporary” say Mausmi Ambastha and Anas Shakil. Avoidable and unfortunate wastage in the cutting room can cut into profits and...
View Article90% Manufacturers Do Not Know The Goal Of Their Factory. Do You?
Factory Scene 1 “Where is Roll No. 11, it was supposed to be laid in this lay!” Shouted the Cutting Manager. “We don’t know Sir, it was supposed to be here.” Replied the helpless Fabric Guy. Nobody...
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Do you group fabric in your factory? Do it NOW.
“Just like a group of persons is more likely to achieve a common goal rather than individuals working independently; Grouping of fabric is more likely to prevent wastage thus achieving the goal of...
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6 Good Practices of the Cutting Floor
We talk about measures or practices which can eventually work towards increasing productivity as it is the ultimate goal every manufacturer aims to achieve. But we disregard a very basic reality...
View Article5 Problems You Face While Buying Fabric
Sourcing fabric is one the most important and challenging jobs in the apparel industry. Even a little mistake can cost thousands of dollars. But how do you know what is the right length of fabric to be...
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4 Quick Fixes for Your Fabric Buying Woes
In my last blog ‘5 Problems you Face While Buying Fabric’, I discussed the various problems apparel manufacturers face while sourcing fabric. From unavailability of sizes to fabric information, the...
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CAD Software DOES NOT Save Fabric
CAD solutions have become a norm. It is a necessity for every factory. Be it to digitize patterns or to have your markers ready in one click! But is your solution provider taking advantage of this...
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5 Reasons Why CPL/Bit Wash Is Robbing You Blind
Whenever confronted with a crisis, the general human tendency is to firefight our way out of it. Nothing much is wrong with that. But when the crisis becomes a daily occurrence and we still choose to...
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6 Steps To Avoid Shrinkage Without CPL/Bit Wash
In my last blog ‘5 Reasons Why CPL/Bit Wash Is Robbing You Blind’, we saw how a widely practiced solution like CPL/Bit wash, to counter high shrinkages in knit fabric, is snatching millions of dollars...
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You Waste 1.3 Billion Tonnes Of Fabric. What Are You Doing About It?
Fabric waste is underrated. The world cares about the environment. Air pollution, noise pollution, wastes from plastic, food and materials from our everyday lives. All this is monitored, the world is...
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The Dirty Truth Behind Your Favorite Pair Of Denim
The first pair of denims were manufactured in 1873. We have been wearing these wardrobe staples for 143 years. We wear them, we love them. A piece of clothing we take for granted. But I am sure, very...
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What’s Scarier than the Food You Waste? Your Lovely T-shirt!
You recycle beer bottles, plastic. Try your best to reduce food waste, because oh! The world food hunger is a global crisis, and also because you care about the environment. 5th June- world environment...
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How Much Money Is Stuck In Your Factory?
In the book, The Goal, Alex and his team narrowed down on three basic measures they thought would tell them how their factory was performing. • How much money is going in the factory? • How much money...
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