12 Major Factors Affecting Factory Efficiency

Efficiency is one of the most important KPI for any garments industry. Higher efficiency indicates the proper utilization of man, machine and material of the factory as well as higher productivity and profitability. But most of the time we didn’t achieve the desired efficiency due to some obstacles.  In this article today we will learn about 12 major factors that badly affected the efficiency of any apparel industry.

12 Major Factors Affecting Factory Efficiency

1. Imbalance sewing line

2. Setting line by the unskilled operators

3. Input delay

4. High NPT and no action to reduce

5. Not using time-saving equipment (Folder, Attachment etc.)

6. Bad quality production

7. Very long style changeover time

8. Higher machine breakdown and delay maintenance

9. Poor production monitoring

10. More bottleneck process and not taken corrective action

11. Higher absenteeism

12. Demotivated worker

Conclusion

To improve the sewing line efficiency as well as factory efficiency, the above 12 steps should be improve.