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Articles on Industrial Engineering

1. Industrial Engineer's Job Profile
It was just a couple of years back that demand of an industrial engineer has increased many times. Reason, an Industrial engineer can do a lot to improve performance of the company.

2. How to Calculate SAM of a Garment?
SAM or Standard Allowed Minute is used to measure task or work content of a garment. This term is widely used by industrial engineers and production people in the garment manufacturing industry. For the estimation of cost of making a garment SAM value plays a very important role.

3. Standard minutes (SAM) for basic garments
Can anybody estimate SAM (standard allowed minute) of a garment without seeing and/or analyzing the garment? No. It is not possible. To estimate SAM you have to analyze the garment carefully and check different factors that affect the SAM.

4. Garment production systems
In simple a ‘garment production system’ is a way how fabric is being converted into garment in a manufacturing system. Production systems are named according to the various factors, like- Number of machine are used to make a garment, Machines layout, Total number of operators or tailors involved to sew a complete garment and Number of pieces moving in a line during making a garment.

5. How to set production target of a line?
It is a very important question, because it is the basic knowledge about production management and each people who are working in production must know how estimated production is calculated.

6. How to balance a traditional sewing line?
A sequence of operations is involved in making a garment. In bulk garment production, generally a team works in an assembly line (Progressive Bundle system) and each operator do one operation and give it other operator to do next operation. In this way garment reached to end of the line as a completed garment.

7. How to calculate Garment Cost
In the clothing manufacturing, supplier gives final manufacturing cost to buyer prior to order confirmation. For that factory prepares cost sheet estimating costs in different cost heads. Cost heads like Fabric, Trims and Packing materials, Labor cost and Overheads.

8. Different Types of Incentive systems
In manufacturing industries, an incentive is a factor (financial or non-financial) that enables or motivates a particular course of action, or counts as a reason for preferring one choice to the alternatives. Eventually, incentives' aim is providing value for money and contributing to organizational success.

9. The Concept of Performance Rating
Rating is a subjective comparison of any condition or activity to a benchmark, based upon our experience. While the mechanics of time study record the time a task did take, applying a