Author : Mohammad Abdul Baset and Md. Mominur Rahman

This paper represents the application of Industrial Engineering in garments sector for reducing the cost of SMV and improving productivity by implementation of proper line balancing. Line balancing process is one of the most important stages in ready-made Clothing sector. Line balancing is an important parameter. In apparel manufacturing, skills and expertise of a sewing operator is being presented in Efficiency term. An operator with higher efficiency produces more garments than an operator with lower efficiency in the same time frame. The Line Balancing is to design a smooth production flow by allotting processes to workers so as to allow each worker to complete the allotted workload within an even time. It is a system where we meet the production expectations and we can find the same amount of work in process in every operation at any point in the day. We know that in our garments sector main problem is that the garments are conducted by the poor, inefficient and entraining people. So that a big concern is essential in this sector like low production, longer production lead time, high rework, rejection, poor line blanching, low flexibility of style change.

Keywords: Industrial Engineering, Line Balancing, Productivity, Efficiency, skill.

Article published in International Journal of Current Engineering and Technology, Vol.6, No.3 (June-2016)