The Top 6 Things an Industrial Engineer Does in a Garments Factory

An Industrial Engineer (IE) has a lot of activities in any industry. They have many tasks and scopes in the garments industry. Usually, they make work-study, method study, process improvement, MIS maintenance, line balancing, production and NPT control, and many more. In this article, we will discuss the top 5 activities of an IE in the garments industry.

In an IE department, there are different types of employees. If anyone is IE GM/AGM or Manager, they have to manage and coordinate the entire department and keep updated top management. If anyone is IE office level, he has to do root label activities of IE.

It's more likely that you'll spend your time by Time Study, Capacity Balancing, Preparing Operation Bulletins, Creating Daily Production Reports, and Figuring out thread consumption if you're a junior IE or a work-study officer.

Overall, the factory's IE team is involved in various activities. Among them, the Top 5 activities are listed below.

✔ Time Study

✔ Line Balancing

✔ Method Improvement

✔ Production Improvement

✔ Cost controlling

✔ Report analysis

Time Study

Time Study determines how long it takes to complete a particular task or its components under given conditions. Every day, an operator does the same job (operation). To determine how long an operator will need to complete a task at a specific rate of output, time studies are used.

Line Balancing

In the garment industry, line-balancing is equalizing output from each sewing operation on a production line. The goal of line balancing is to create a smooth production flow by allocating operations to workers to complete each process on time.

Method Improvement

Method improvement is critical to any process's success if it leads to increased resource utilization by reducing or eliminating non-value-added tasks.

Method Study is defined by Frank B. Gilbreth, a pioneer of Motion Study, as “The science of eliminating wastefulness resulting from unnecessary, ill-directed and inefficient motions”

Production Improvement

It is one of the key responsibilities of industrial engineers. Almost everything depends on factory production. Higher production leads to higher efficiency and profitability.

Cost controlling

Industrial engineers always strive to reduce the cost of any process by removing unnecessary motion and waste from the system. They constantly seek a better short way to save time to increase efficiency and saving costs.

Report analysis

It is a significant activity. Report and analysis represent the overall at a glance situation of the factory. Usually, all vital data is kept and maintained in factories by the IE department.