Non-Productive Time in Garment Industry: A Comprehensive Analysis

Abstract

In this research of NPT, rootcause identification methodology has been used to reduce the non-productivities activities in sewing operation in garment manufacturing. The rapidly changing economic conditions, such as global competition, diminishing profit margins, consumer demand for high-quality products, product diversity, and shorter lead times, among other aspects, have a significant influence on the garment manufacturing industry. For any garment industry, cost and time related to production and quality management or waste minimizations have significant impact on overall expenditure. In order to save time and minimize internal process time, steps have been taken to evaluate and eliminate non-productive time emphasizing on the sewing operations and also the other backward linkage departments. This research work focuses on observing the root causes of NPT of different types of garments in sewing operations and other related departments to analyze the reasons for loss time that results in loss pieces. The outcome of this research work is to highlight on improving productivity and recommend the steps to reduce the causes of NPT in garment production that would maximize the profit and minimize the cost of production.