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Industrial Engineering and Machinery

Industrial Engineering and Machinery: 6 courses and 27 lessons on ATMA. Every lesson is free to read, with an Excel template for each course.

T08-C01 Work Study and SMV

1. What work study measures and why a factory needs it beyond a stopwatch guess
2. Time study methods: stopwatch, rated observation and allowance, and how they combine into an SMV
3. Building a full SMV table for a garment's complete operation sequence
4. Predetermined motion time systems and when a factory uses them instead of direct time study
5. Auditing an existing SMV table for errors before trusting it for costing or planning

T08-C02 Capacity Planning

1. Calculating a line's daily capacity from its SMV table and available minutes
2. Efficiency and utilisation: the two percentages that separate theoretical from actual capacity
3. Building a capacity booking sheet across multiple lines and multiple orders
4. What happens when a factory overbooks its own capacity
5. Building a complete capacity plan for a new order before confirming its delivery date

T08-C03 Line Balancing and Bottlenecks

1. Reading a line-balancing chart to see where operator workload is uneven
2. Splitting, combining and re-sequencing operations to balance a line
3. Calculating balancing loss and what a factory can realistically recover
4. Diagnosing a bottleneck's root cause before assigning it a fix
5. Building a complete line-balancing worksheet for a real operation sequence

T08-C04 Garment Production Machinery

1. The main machine families on a garment production floor and what each one does
2. Stitch classes and seam types and which machine produces each one
3. Choosing the right machine for a given operation and fabric
4. Machine faults that come from the wrong machine choice, not operator error

T08-C05 Textile and Specialised Machinery

1. The main machine families in spinning, weaving and knitting mills
2. Specialised machinery for socks, hosiery and terry or towel production
3. How mill machinery choices shape what a garment factory can source
4. Choosing between mill machinery options for a given fabric or product family

T08-C06 Machinery Investment and Maintenance

1. Calculating the payback period on a new machine investment
2. Preventive versus breakdown maintenance and their real cost difference
3. Building a machine maintenance schedule and tracking its own cost
4. Deciding whether to invest in new machinery or maintain existing machines longer

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