Plant Layout in Apparel ManufacturingThe foremost and the most important step of establishing a business is setting up a factory. While designing of a factory layout has been nowadays handed over to professional architects, the apparel manufacturers must have a basic knowledge of what a ‘good’ factory layout actually means. A good factory layout offers minimum transportation time and flexibility with no back and forth motion. This series is a one-stop solution for all the factors to be considered, apart from the checklist, and the ways to maximum optimise the factory along with case studies of apparel manufacturing plant layouts in India. |
Contents
The definition of a good | 1 |
Multistoried factories have been mushrooming because the land costs today | 12 |
A smooth interdepartmental flow of man and materials greatly | 19 |
Employee productivity does not singlehandedly depend on the skill set or the level of machinery heshe | 29 |
A single floor factory | 36 |
The rigid mindset of apparel manufacturers has changed from understanding the need to keeping | 43 |
Common terms and phrases
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