Productivity of Garment Industry
Productivity of Garment Industry
Productivity of Garment Industry
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Shubham Anil Jain
Aditya Birla Fashion and Retail Limited
Bangalore, India
Email: [email protected]
1. Introduction:
In today’s era, the functions and responsibilities of garment
manufacturing firm, in the new millennium, has become more challenging.
Because of increase in an international competition, it has created a lot of
pressure on the apparel manufacturers to produce quality goods at reasonable
prices and satisfy the customer. In this scenario, the management of apparel
firms needs to focus on continuous improvement in factory. So, here Productivity
data could be a useful way to measure the improvement rate and the level of
performance of the factory. Productivity, in simple words, is the relationship
between output and input. So, maintaining this output and input data is very
important for managers in apparel manufacturing to identify the current
productivity of factory and identifying the action plan to improve it.
2. Basic Concepts of Productivity:
Productivity is defined as the ratio of Output to Input. It is simply an index which
highlights in how effective manner an organization is using its resources (inputs).
When apparel industries are considered, the output can be taken as the number
of pieces produced, while “inputs” are many such as the people, machines and
time.
Suppose a garment factory produces 10000 pieces in a day with 1000 operator,
then productivity is
Productivity = Output/Input
= 10000/1000
=10 pieces
Labor productivity – Output per labor (direct +indirect) in a given period of time
(in pieces)
Machine productivity – Output per machine in a given period of time (in pieces)
a) Product:
Criticality, nature, style or type of product definitely affects the productivity, as
simple design and less skill requirement can increase the productivity and vice
versa.
b) Way of management:
This includes the organizational structure, work culture of organization, policy
and procedures. A flexible and good management will clearly lead to higher
productivity or vice versa.
c) Human tendency:
Productivity is generally dependent upon human level, tendency and skill. This
again depends upon various factors such as education, training, experience
aptitude etc., of the employees. Motivation and adaptable nature of employees
will influence productivity.
d) Plant and equipment:
To improve the productivity proper and effective layout as to be done and proper
tools are required. This can reduce the time of manufacturing and also increase
the quality of the product.
e) Work methods:
By improving the methodology of work it can improve the productivity. Also by
using work study, industrial engineering techniques, lean tools and training
one can increase the productivity.
a) Government policies:
As the government policies and taxes are particularly governed by the authorities,
which are not controlled by person and can’t be changed.
b) Socio-economic structure:
As per this is concerned it changes the purchasing power human being. Due to
this their tradition, cultural value affects the overall productivity of the industry.
4.4 Automation:
As we live in 21st century, where everything has been get automatic, so apply this
in garment industry too. Using of automatic machines, systems, etc can improve
the productivity as it will reduce the time of manufacturing. For example, auto
trimmer sewing machine can be used, which will automatically cut the thread
after stitching will save the time of manual trimming and help to improve
productivity.
5. Conclusion:
For any organization paying attention towards the productivity is very important.
Nowadays, it is considered as one of the important metric to measure factories
performance, so it has to be given importance. As in the article it is seen that
there are various reasons which can affect the productivity of garment industry,
one should work on them and always try for eliminating it. As well as there are
numerous ways through which productivity can be improved, which will
definitely improves the industry name and profit to the company.