INTRODUCTION 1.1Background of the organization Gimac Garments (Pvt) ltd was incorporated in 1990. The company expanded continuously and currently operating with four garment manufacturing factories with more than 2000 employees and annual turnover and the profit of around Rs. 1.5 billion and Rs. 45 million. It manufactures and exports readymade garments to United States market over four million pieces per annum. The company is specialized in children girl’s dresses for well renowned brands in United States. Further Gimac Garments (Pvt) ltd also having a very good design and development unit with latest technologies such as CADCAM and Tukka software’s. The production process starts from import of raw material from china, cutting the fabrics and issuing to the production floor. After sewing of the garments in the production floor it will be send to in line quality controllers for quality check. Then they will send the garments to iron and from that they will send the garments to quality auditors. The qualified garments will be packed and shipped to the buyers …show more content…
Over the last five years Gimac Garments volume of exports gradually increased. Due to shortage of skill machine operators in Colombo as well as to fulfill our production capacity and to achieve cost advantage, Company has to look for outstation factories. Management had acquired an operating factory in Monaragala named as Monaragala Garments (Pvt) ltd.It is currently operating with around 300 employees and 3 production
Manufacturing – within a business the manufacturing department works alongside several other departments such as marketing and purchasing to make sure that they manufacture products efficiently. Manufacturing is generally a long process as detailed designs of products have to be assembled before construction can begin. Manufacturing varies can depend on the organisation type large companies are likely to manufacture products themselves, and they tend to do this on a large scale in order to be able to buy resources in bulk in order to save a substantial amount of money. Small businesses tend to design their own products but may not have the ability to manufacture; therefore they usually hire other companies to manufacture for them - this can be quite costly, so they commonly perform manufacturing on a large scale
Imagine being an immigrant with no money to provide for yourself or your family. You have to turn to work in a Shirtwaist Factory in order to make a living. While working inside of the Shirtwaist factory you notice there are many injuries that occur from the machinery, you are being lowly paid for working extended hours including holidays, and the bosses lock the doors so that you can’t leave your job. Many of the immigrant woman became upset and decide to go on strike, for better working conditions. As a result the owners of the company sweep the women under the rug and they’re right back at the factory working unfair jobs until the fire occurs.
The textile factories were an unsafe and unheathly place for working class families to work. These factories were unsafe for children to work because the factories would over work the children,give them a insuffient diet and the factories were filled with diseases. For example a testimony from Joesph Hebergram to the Sadler committee he said; ‘i have damged lunges. my lgs muscles do not function properly and will not support the weight of my bones... the doctor told me that it was caused by dust in the factory,from being over worked and a insufficient diet.
Part I. Apply the Un Universal Intellectual Standards: In the article “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops” pertaining Cromwell College sweatshirts, the information collects from Cromwell Clarion. The first violation of the Universal Intellectual standards is the accuracy. For example, “WorldWeave observers noticed some children who appeared to be as young as eleven or twelve working with dangerous fabric-cutting machine”, and how could this information find out the age of the children by just looking at them? Is this even possible?
1. Set forth and compare the business cases for each of the 2 projections under consideration by Emily Harris. Which do you regard as more compelling? The two projections proposed by Emily Harris are Match My Doll Clothing Line Expansion and Design Your Own Doll line.
I think that English textile factories were bad for the health of the working class families because in Documents A and C it says that Children were getting hurt constantly, were beaten, over worked, and never had time to eat In document C, John Barley was abused and when someone came to interview them, they had to lie about their treatment , he also worked long hours and their breakfast was very little. When Birley was abused, his boss thought he was dead. When he went to go hit Birley, he quickly put his arm up to protect his head and his boss hit him with all his might. John had A broken elbow and marks. He said “ I bear the marks, and suffer pain from it to this day, and always shall as long as I live…” They also never got fed properly
This was the medium constant development of high quality apparel, with attributes of customers’ feedback, to refine the clothing standard. 4.1.2 Product
Introduction: They are one of the key player to bring advancements and offer one of a kind market arrangements all through the esteem chain of denim Industry. The organization is open recorded and began creation in 1993 and tirelessly offering premium textures with remarkable hues, shades and pieces of clothing with broad exhibit of washes. Mission Artistic Denim Mills is focused on: • Achieve and hold advertise initiative in Denim Textures/Articles of clothing Assembling produce to the most astounding quality measures exceed expectations through consistent change satisfy and surpass the desires of our clients be moral in its practices • Operate through cooperation • Ensure a reasonable come back to partners • Fulfill social Obligations
Many decision-making problems, for instance, clothing design, pattern cutting, production arrangement, trends and sales prediction, and supply chain management, needed to be tackled. Those problem may be intractable and can be solved by different artificial intelligence approaches such as genetic algorithms, fuzzy logic and expert system. Among various artificial intelligence applications, this report is going to discuss an application of interactive genetic algorithm which is related to apparel design. The original way
In order to explicitly analysis the clothing industry, emphasis must be laid on Textile
Coordinate with customer relationship management to identify customer articulated needs 2. Select materials and suppliers in conjunction with procurement 3. Develop production technology in manufacturing flow to manufacture and integrate in to the best supply chain flow for the product/market combination G. Manufacturing Flow Management The manufacturing process produces and supplies products to the distribution channels based on past forecasts. The production process has to be flexible to respond to market changes and Mass Customization must absorb.
On the other hand the fact that Zara produces the remaining 40% internally, is a strong asset, providing better control, and short lead-times. Finally the fact that Zara owns 450 workshops were garments are to be sewed is a major asset ensuring quality. Another important asset in terms of production, is the technologies involved, for instance the cutting machines, to minimize waste (Ferdows & co. 2014 p9), used in combination with the last-final hand-made sewing. The ease of the connection between the production center and the distribution center is also an important time-saver element, and therefore
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The exceptionally notoriety of the word 'globalization’ signals a require for caution. The word was barely utilized some time recently the late 1980s, indeed in scholarly circles, but nowadays you can barely open a daily paper without experiencing the term. It might effortlessly show up to is an elegant name utilized to assign wonders around which one has as it were the vaguest thoughts. However to dispose of the concept of globalization, and the huge consideration agreed the marvels it envelops, on such grounds, would be silly. There is a genuine require for a common, non-specific term to portray the complex, multi sided ways in which the world is inter-connected, and progressively so.
Sustainability in Design Report Sustainability is important as it impacts our social, cultural and physical environment. In the Fashion and Design industry, some fashion designers take sustainability in textiles very seriously. Textiles are anything from a simple dishcloth that you use every day to the obvious one, your clothing. Sustainability in the fashion industry involves ensuring that the garment that you are making can get maximum wear in its life cycle. Sustainability can be defined as when fashion meets nature.