Study on Bottleneck Problem in Sewing Line for Garments Production

Abstract

In garment industry Production floor management is one of the most powerful techniques and one of the challenging tasks to manage the floor in a proper way. Sewing floor or Sewing section is one of the most important and critical stage in the garment industry. In sewing section, all the item or process is not easy, there are some critical processes and in the sewing floor all the Operator and helper are not well skilled to do some operation. For that reason, operator faces some difficulties during those critical operation as well as in easy process. For facing this kind of difficulties, the production gets hampered in that line and the sewing line cannot fulfilled the production for one or two operation and this problem is known as bottleneck. Bottleneck occurred for many reasons and for Bottleneck the Capacity decreases. Basically, it happens when the workload comes too early. There are many ways to overcome from this problem and by reducing it the capacity or the production will be increased. By doing motion improvement, method improvement, process sharing, adding manpower and uniform line balancing Bottleneck can be removed. By improving this we can reduce the cycle time and increased the efficiency and achieve the target capacity. This thesis report will show how to reduce bottleneck and its remarkable improvement in production.