Study on 7 Wastes of Lean in Garments Manufacturing

Garment Business today has become very competitive. Low price, less lead time, high costing, many competitors have made the market saturated. Depending on the level of journey, this business has come to a professional and scientific stage, where accurate planning, proper time management in production and operation, high skilled technical support, optimum cost-profit estimation are very important issues to survive. Now a day's it’s impossible to run a garment manufacturing operation without scientific and professional approach. Industrial Engineering concepts are developed on this demand. Industrial Engineering concepts are required in every stage in Costing, Product R&D, Planning, Supply Chain, Production management, Maintenance management, Layout plan, Productivity Improvement, Cutting Improvement, and Manpower Skill Development and so on. Industrial Engineering also more concepts are required in Initiative on lean manufacturing, learning of lean tools and looking for scope of implementation. Every Garment Owner now understands that only scientific and professional approach can make the profit. So demand for Industrial Engineering is very high, and still the availability of Industrial Engineers is very less than the demand