Paper Deals with Lean manufacturing in apparel industries

1. LEAN MANUFACTURING IN
APPAREL INDUSTRY
By: Bharath Krishna V
III B.Tech Fashion Technology
Kumaraguru College of Technology

2. CONTENTS
LEAN MANUFACTURING
1. Definition
2. Objectives
3. Principles
4. Pillars of lean
5. Types of wastage
6. Cellular manufacturing
7. Just In Time Production
8. Case Study
9. Conclusion and Scope.

3. 1. LEAN TIME MANUFACTURING
DEF: Systematic approach for
achieving the shortest possible cycle
by eliminating the process waste
through continuous improvement.
In simple words lean is manufacturing
without waste.

4. 2. OBJECTIVES
 Meet customer demand on time
 Eliminating non value added activates
 Minimize the work in process inventory
 Create flexibility of style changeover
 Creating multi-skilled operators responding
quickly for style change over.

5. 3. PRINCIPLES

6. 4. FIVE PILLARS OF LEAN MANUFACTURING.

7. 5. TYPES OF WASTAGE

8. 6. CELLULAR MANUFACTURING
Combination of
1. People
2. equipment
3. workstations
organized in the
order of process
to flow

9. 7. JUST IN TIME

10. APPAREL INDUSTRIES USING LEAN
MANUFACTURING.
Silver Spark Apparels
Blooms Burg Apparels

11. 8. CASE STUDY-
COMPARISON OF PRODUCTION TIME
Ref: Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Tools in Garment
Manufacturing , Mr. Narash Paneru, University of Applied Science, 2011…

12. COMPARISON OF NUMBER OF OPERATION
Ref: Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Tools in Garment
Manufacturing , Mr. Narash Paneru, University of Applied Science,
2011…

13. COMPARISON OF NUMBER OF OPERATORS
Ref: Implementation of Lean Manufacturing Tools in Garment
Manufacturing , Mr. Narash Paneru, University of Applied Science,
2011…

14. 9. CONCLUSION
 Lean manufacturing develops an easier way for the
management to coordinate the factory production
 Decreases number of operators, operation and
time, which in turn increase the profit for the firm….

15. GO LEAN ‘N’ GO GREEN…….
 lean and green is a systematic elimination of
unsustainable practices.
 The tools for lean and the green can be blended to
provide a powerful toolkit for lean and green…