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http://dx.doi.org/10.5805/SFTI.2014.16.6.979

A Study on 'Line Balancing' of Women's Jacket Production  

Shim, Kue-Nam (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Mokpo National University)
Kim, Jin-Seon (Dept. of Weddingevent, Daegu Future College)
Oh, Ji-Yeong (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Mokpo National University)
Suh, Eun-Joung (Dept. of Clothing & Textiles, Mokpo National University)
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Fashion & Textile Research Journal / v.16, no.6, 2014 , pp. 979-986 More about this Journal
Abstract
This study establishes basic data for operations management by organizing processes and measuring time in the mini line for female jackets to improve productivity, ensure competitiveness, and maintain operator competency and the line process flow balance between apparel manufacturing companies. The results of this study are as follows. Sewing operations are divided into preparation functions, arrangement, partial tasks, and assembly that consist of 84 processes. The results from time measurement indicate that 3238.41seconds (sec) were required to produce a single jacket and that the average time required for operators was 231.32 sec. A control limit was established to increase the reliability of the measured value for net time. After outside values were removed, the operation time was measured to be 3176.35 sec. This accounted for 98.08% of the total operation time, with net time decreasing by 62.06. Skill and effort level coefficients were applied to measure the operator performance, the total real time was calculated to be 3415. The requirement for preparation and arrangement operations were 1233.35 sec, and 2182.22 sec for partial tasks and assembly operations. Process separation and organization were performed after the bottleneck operation was selected to identify the maximum line balance. Consequently, process efficiency of preparation and arrangement operations increased from 79.19% to 93.00%, and the partial tasks and assembly operations increased from 62.36% to 90.93%.
Keywords
process; line balancing; time measurement; NWT; RWT;
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