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T07

Factory Operations

Factory Operations: 5 courses and 25 lessons on ATMA. Every lesson is free to read, with an Excel template for each course.

T07-C01 How a Garment Factory Works

  1. The main departments and workflow inside a garment factory, in the order work actually moves
  2. Line balancing and how a factory matches its output to a target quantity and deadline
  3. Capacity planning: how a factory decides how many orders it can accept
  4. Common production bottlenecks and how a factory identifies where work is piling up
  5. Reading a factory's own production report to see where an order stands

T07-C02 Cutting Room Operations

  1. What happens in a cutting room, from fabric relaxation to bundled cut pieces
  2. Marker making and fabric utilisation, and why the wastage percentage matters
  3. Spreading and cutting methods and the quality faults each one risks
  4. Cutting-room-specific quality faults and how to inspect for them
  5. Building a complete cutting room checklist for a production order

T07-C03 Sewing Floor Operations

  1. How a sewing line breaks a garment into operations and organises operators around them, from a straight line to a modular team
  2. Operation breakdown and standard minute value, and how they set a line's output target
  3. Work-in-progress tracking and how a supervisor sees where an order is stuck
  4. Sewing-floor-specific quality faults and how to inspect for them
  5. Tracking a complete sewing order from line start to line closure

T07-C04 Finishing, Pressing and Packing

  1. What happens after sewing: finishing, pressing and packing as separate stages
  2. Pressing methods and the fabric-specific risks each one carries
  3. Packing formats and how a buyer's packing instruction changes the final carton
  4. Finishing-and-packing-specific quality faults and how to inspect for them
  5. Building a complete finishing and packing checklist for a shipment

T07-C05 Lean and Continuous Improvement

  1. What Lean means on a garment factory floor, in plain operational terms
  2. The seven classic wastes and how each one shows up in a garment factory
  3. Kaizen and small continuous-improvement cycles versus one-off large projects
  4. Tracking a single improvement idea from identification to a measured before/after result
  5. Building a complete continuous-improvement tracker for a factory floor

Every lesson is free to read.

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