FABRIC - Care and Classification

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Visual Dictionary In Textiles & Apparel _Elsayed Elnashar, Oksana Zakharkevich, Galina Shvets, Anna Selezneva

The need for high product variety, smaller batch size, shorter delivery time and higher quality has encouraged apparel companies to concentrate on the development of digitization and information management. This speeds the response to those rapid changes occurring in the apparel industry. However, on the shop floor, it is difficult to achieve line balancing due to the different pitch time of each workstation. Simultaneously, differences in operators’ efficiency make this difficulty far greater. This paper will develop a simulation technique that can be applied to production lines, balancing the data derived and offering clear measurements of operators’ efficiencies. The data collected by the researcher from a dress assembly line in factory in China is used to build a simulation using ProModel software. An optimization solution is suggested that may be one route to improving production line performance. Results derived from the simulation hypothesise that by considering the operators’ efficiencies the production line could be changed generating higher productivity and lower work in process (WIP). Thus, simulation may also be effective in helping achieve better line balancing, even predicting problems before production starts.