STUDIES IN CLOTHING COMPANIES DUE TO MINIMIZE THE START UP LOSSES

Conference paper > Summary Text · 2015

Authors: Mehmet KÜÇÜK, MERAL İŞLER, Mücella GÜNER

5th International Istanbul Textile Congress 2015, Türkiye, İstanbul, International, Verbal, Summary Text, 2015-2015, pp 68-69

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<p>Abstract:Start-up&nbsp;loses&nbsp;are&nbsp;one&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;factors&nbsp;that&nbsp;affect&nbsp;the&nbsp;</p><p>productivity negatively in the clothing industry indiscriminately. When&nbsp;</p><p>a&nbsp;production&nbsp;is&nbsp;started,&nbsp;the&nbsp;time&nbsp;spent&nbsp;to&nbsp;obtain&nbsp;the&nbsp;stable&nbsp;speed,&nbsp;</p><p>productivity&nbsp;and&nbsp;planned&nbsp;quality&nbsp;level,&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;effected&nbsp;from&nbsp;</p><p>production&nbsp;processes,&nbsp;machinery&nbsp;devices&nbsp;and&nbsp;setting&nbsp;of&nbsp;these&nbsp;</p><p>devices&nbsp;and&nbsp;operator&nbsp;skills.&nbsp;This&nbsp;means&nbsp;low&nbsp;productivity&nbsp;level&nbsp;</p><p>compared&nbsp;to&nbsp;targeted&nbsp;level&nbsp;and&nbsp;all&nbsp;this&nbsp;calls&nbsp;start-up&nbsp;loses.&nbsp;If&nbsp;the&nbsp;</p><p>model&nbsp;diversity&nbsp;is&nbsp;high&nbsp;in&nbsp;a&nbsp;production&nbsp;line,&nbsp;these&nbsp;loses&nbsp;can&nbsp;reach&nbsp;</p><p>significant levels.&nbsp;</p><p>Studies&nbsp;in recent years show that to start working with a brand new&nbsp;</p><p>model&nbsp;and&nbsp;comprehend&nbsp;each&nbsp;detail&nbsp;completely&nbsp;to&nbsp;produce&nbsp;take&nbsp;4&nbsp;</p><p>days&nbsp;totally&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;first&nbsp;day.&nbsp;Garment&nbsp;manufacturing&nbsp;of&nbsp;clothing&nbsp;</p><p>sector&nbsp;is moving towards much model diversity with less quantity.&nbsp;If&nbsp;</p><p>the quantity&nbsp;is&nbsp;low and&nbsp;the model diversity&nbsp;is high,&nbsp;this means&nbsp;with&nbsp;</p><p>the&nbsp;start-up&nbsp;loses&nbsp;are&nbsp;often&nbsp;encountered.&nbsp;Therefore,&nbsp;the&nbsp;goal&nbsp;of&nbsp;all&nbsp;</p><p>enterprises should be to minimize the start-up loses. Figure 1 shows&nbsp;</p><p>that when a new model is started working on, the productivity level is&nbsp;</p><p>around&nbsp;70%.&nbsp;After&nbsp;4&nbsp;days&nbsp;this&nbsp;level&nbsp;increases&nbsp;slightly&nbsp;to&nbsp;around&nbsp;</p><p>100%. For each new model, this figure will move similarly. This figure&nbsp;</p><p>shows&nbsp;that,&nbsp;if&nbsp;the&nbsp;quantity&nbsp;is&nbsp;less,&nbsp;the&nbsp;average&nbsp;productivity&nbsp;cannot&nbsp;</p><p>reach up for instance to 90%&nbsp;</p><p>Due to minimize the start-up loses the things that should be done are&nbsp;</p><p>to&nbsp;minimize&nbsp;firstly&nbsp;the&nbsp;errors&nbsp;which&nbsp;arise&nbsp;from&nbsp;the&nbsp;companies&nbsp;</p><p>themselves. These are;&nbsp;</p><p>1.&nbsp;A proper&nbsp;line&nbsp;balancing&nbsp;according&nbsp;to&nbsp;the model,&nbsp;so&nbsp;to do&nbsp;a&nbsp;</p><p>job sharing to employees in a balanced way,&nbsp;</p><p>2.&nbsp;Minimizing&nbsp;the&nbsp;band&nbsp;setting&nbsp;time&nbsp;at&nbsp;the&nbsp;entrance&nbsp;of&nbsp;new&nbsp;</p><p>models&nbsp;through&nbsp;planning&nbsp;the&nbsp;production&nbsp;of&nbsp;similar&nbsp;patterns&nbsp;</p><p>consecutively,&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>3.&nbsp;Giving&nbsp;regular&nbsp;and&nbsp;clear&nbsp;work&nbsp;and&nbsp;quality&nbsp;instructions&nbsp;to&nbsp;</p><p>employees&nbsp;if&nbsp;necessary&nbsp;describing&nbsp;these&nbsp;instructions&nbsp;with&nbsp;</p><p>figures,&nbsp;</p><p>4.&nbsp;Increasing&nbsp;knowledge&nbsp;of employees by&nbsp;training&nbsp;for&nbsp;the new&nbsp;</p><p>processes&nbsp;of&nbsp;new&nbsp;models&nbsp;before&nbsp;the&nbsp;production&nbsp;starts&nbsp;and&nbsp;</p><p>enabling the strict controls during production,&nbsp;</p><p>5.&nbsp;Ensuring&nbsp;the&nbsp;seamless&nbsp;realization&nbsp;of&nbsp;reinforcement&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;</p><p>main and auxiliary materials and also accessories,&nbsp;</p><p>6.&nbsp;In&nbsp;case&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;new&nbsp;model&nbsp;or&nbsp;usage&nbsp;of&nbsp;different&nbsp;machine&nbsp;or&nbsp;</p><p>apparatus&nbsp;that&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;used,&nbsp;providing&nbsp;the&nbsp;preparation&nbsp;of&nbsp;</p><p>these machines timely and fully.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>When&nbsp;figure&nbsp;1&nbsp;is&nbsp;analyzed,&nbsp;it&nbsp;can&nbsp;be&nbsp;easily&nbsp;seen&nbsp;that&nbsp;to&nbsp;catch&nbsp;the&nbsp;</p><p>planned&nbsp;quantity&nbsp;level&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;beginning&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;production&nbsp;of&nbsp;a&nbsp;new&nbsp;</p><p>model&nbsp;is&nbsp;impossible&nbsp;because&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;start-up&nbsp;loses.&nbsp;To&nbsp;capture&nbsp;the&nbsp;</p><p>targeted average productivity for an order, it is possible at the end of&nbsp;</p><p>the&nbsp;4-day&nbsp;period&nbsp;in&nbsp;which&nbsp;the model&nbsp;is&nbsp;fully&nbsp;learned&nbsp;and&nbsp;won&nbsp;the&nbsp;</p><p>habit of working hands.&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>For that reason the aim of this study is to make some examination to&nbsp;</p><p>minimize&nbsp;the&nbsp;reasons&nbsp;of&nbsp;low&nbsp;productivity&nbsp;in&nbsp;the&nbsp;beginning&nbsp;of&nbsp;the&nbsp;</p><p>production&nbsp;and&nbsp;to&nbsp;provide&nbsp;to&nbsp;start&nbsp;production&nbsp;as&nbsp;high&nbsp;productivity&nbsp;</p><p>level as possible. In this study, in a clothing company, the reasons of&nbsp;</p><p>start-up&nbsp;loses&nbsp;are&nbsp;analyzed&nbsp;and&nbsp;some&nbsp;recommendations&nbsp;are&nbsp;</p><p>presented for the minimization of these reasons. The results&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>obtained&nbsp;in&nbsp;this&nbsp;study&nbsp;will&nbsp;be&nbsp;shared&nbsp;with&nbsp;clothing&nbsp;companies&nbsp;</p><p>operating in the apparel industry. Thus, it is expected to contribute to&nbsp;</p><p>increasing the productivity level of the companies.</p>

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