The garment production systems are combination of production processes, materials handling, personnel, and equipments that direct workflow and produce finished garment. It is a system which depicts how the two dimensional fabric is transformed into a three dimensional garment in a manufacturing system (Shaeffer 2000; Chuter 1995). The names of the production systems are based on the various factors like utilization of number of machine to assemble a garment, layout of machines, total number of operators involved to produce a garment and number of pieces moving in a production line during the production of a garment (Burbidge 1991).
Each garment production system needs a suitable management philosophy, materials handling procedures, plant layout
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In this system, an operator is specialized in one major component and assembles it from starting to end. For example, if an operator is specialized in assembling of front panel would carry out the operations like assembling of front, setting the pockets, etc and execute the entire operations essential to complete that particular component (Ray 2014; Carr H & Latham 2000). With this type of garment production system, the sewing room should have a number of sections having flexible workers with sufficient skill to do all the operations necessary for a specific style (Kumar 2008). The sections are built according to the average garment produced, and …show more content…
In case of whole garment production system one operator assembles the entire garment from cutting the cloth to sewing as well as finishing the garment. The garment is ready for dispatch when the operator completes the final process. This type of production system is utilized in a very few circumstances, which are involved in custom-wholesale. They are generally high cost and exclusively made for a specific customer (Schertel 1998). The departmental type of whole garment system is also utilized by custom wholesale manufacturers and high cost garment manufacturers. In the departmental whole garment production system one operator does all the work with the particular machinery allocated to a department (Fairhurst 2008). For instance, one operator carry out all the cutting related jobs work in cutting section, and another person carry out assembling job in sewing department, and the third person does the pressing and packing work (Russell & Taylor 1999). Situations may arise where the operators could work on more than single equipment to finish their respective