Summary Clothing Industry

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Figure 1: The Bibette cutting room

(source: Bibette clothing manufacturers,200:210)


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Introduction

This presentation will explain our 5 day factory visit at

Bibette Clothing Manufacturers and all of the activities

that we did.

Including the Production Planning department, the Work

Study department and the Quality department.


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History

Bibette registered with a council in January 1966

Bibette factory started off in Salt River, Cape Town

Eventually moved premises to Lansdowne and will soon

move with the Seardel group inE

pping. The new premises will hold other clothing manufacturers

namely Bonwit and Monviso

The Seardel group is the holding company for these

clothing manufacturers


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Production planning

A new garment is received in the productionplanning department from the design center.

This garment is kept track of from the delivery

date , all the paper work & documents are

checked and notice is taken to the fabricbecause it is the most important component.

The Investronica department will then make the

marker for the garment after that has been

done the garment will be graded.


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Digitizing the pattern piece

(source:Bibette clothing manufacturers, 2011)


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Procedure of a new style.

1. Package is received2. Investronica digitizes

3. Costing is done

4. Pattern is sent to engineering department

5. Pieces are cut6. Cut sheet is used to make production markers

7. Investronica does the actual production method

8. Units required are worked out

9. Production order is raised including trims10.Cutting room proceed with cutting


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Cutting room

Cutting of the Garments at the Bibette factory (source:Bibette clothing

manufacturers, 2011)


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Planning meeting

What is

discussed?

Delivery dates

Update

ETAS

Changes that

occur

Updates

&

standstills


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Internalmeeting

Production workload is looked at

Discuss future styles & trends and

current deliveries

There is a need to return feedbackto the merchandiser of the customer


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Work StudyDepartment

Time study

Time study looks at the work of one operator and

how much work they can do in a specific time period

The work study officer requests a study on one ofthe operators in the line.

Only a supervisor can request a time study

The study usually take between 15-30 minutes

Bibette clothing manufacturers uses the capacity offive cycles.


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When doing a time study

Stop watches are used

Study must be in centiminutes, with the bottom showing

1000 kilowatts.

Study starts as soon as the operator touches thegarment.

When finished the watch is stopped when the garment is

put back on the rail

The time is written down & rounded off.


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Stopwatch Source:Bibette:2011


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Work Analysis

CJ sewing system is

used.

Looks at motions of

the operator, precise

start to finish.

Handling like poking &

pickups & disposing of

garments are all timed

Stopwatch is used to

time the staff per

operation.

How is it

done?


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The QualityDepartment


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The quality system used

Bibette uses the ISO 9000 quality

system

Set of standards used to meet the needs

of the customers and shareholders

Used globally with the quality manual

and the quality policy of the factory


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The system

Creates a more efficient and effective operation

Increases customer satisfaction and retention

Reduces audits

Enhances marketing

Improves employee motivation, awareness and

morale

Promotes international trade and increases profit

and reduce waste


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FABRIC RECEIVED

Security receives a Purchase Order

The Bin Card has all the information of the

order coming inThis includes the number of rolls, meterage

and the total of rolls

Extra material is usually given by the supplier

The information is stored on a data base


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Rolls of fabric on trolleys from supplier

(Source:Bibette clothing manufactrers,2011)


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Inspection

Rolls are taken at random from the bin and checked for flaws and slubs

About 2 meters is used

Fabric buyers send an approval swatch for comparison

Pieces from the same bin are taken to the Light Box

The room is completely dark

Different lights are used for different customers;

TL 84 : Woolworths

DL 65 : Queenspark, Edgars and Foschini


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Light box inspection



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Fabric Storage

Material is stored ina bin location

Each roll has a

sticker with all theinformation on itfrom the colour tothe meterage, thiscan be scanned

This sticker makes iteasier to trackaround the factory


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QUALITYDEPARTMENTMEETING

Occurs between quality managers and other examiners

Discuss topics such as repairs, rejects and the quality

standards on the lineQuality managers have meetings with customers, for

them to be reassured that they in good hands and their

own standards are being met

Discuss motivation with employees to get the garmentright the first time around

All aspects of how to up their rating with the customers

are discussed as well


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Examination

On the line

Examiner walks up anddown the line checkingeach operation

Make sure the garmentis made the correct wayand meet standards

It is then checked bythe last examiner onthe line, once thegarment is made up

Off the line

Roving examiners areresponsible for 3 lines andchecks the garments

Stickers are placed on thegarments

Quality audit report is filledout

She examines each sizeagainst a Size SpecificationSheet given by thecustomer


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REJECTS AND REPAIRS

Done by roving examiners and in the despatchdepartment by auditors

Each measuring point is measured against the Size

Specification Sheet

If not perfect, the style may failAllowance of 1 or 2 cm can sometimes be pushed

through

A repair and reject card is used by supervisors and

placed on the boardAt the end of the line for easy access


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Auditing and Dispatch

Auditor examines the finished work on an AuditSheet

Marked with orange stickers indicating wherethe problem is.

Specification Report is filled in At the Dispatch department garments leave to

shops

Packaged in boxes and counted, known as flatpacking

Outside quality controller may come inrandomly and select a percentage to fit ondummies or models

Use the same lighting as Woolworths


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Orange sticker indicates fault



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To ConcludeThe following key points were achieved in the factory

visit, firsthand knowledge of all departments in a

manufacturing environment and how to run a

successful manufacturing plant.

We have discussed both work organization and

quality departments.

We hope this presentation has helped you gain more

knowledge on this topic.


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THANK YOUFor listening

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