Why Measure Efficiency of Stitching Lines

Line efficiency is one of the common measures analyzed by apparel manufacturing factories daily. Line efficiency is one of the factory KPIs used to measure line performance.

You may be already measuring line efficiency and analyzing data daily. Do you know why should you measure this?

There are many reasons for calculating line efficiency. Some of those are listed here

Why measure line efficiency?

• To compare actual line efficiency with the target efficiency of the factory 
• To perform a comparative study between stitching lines and floors (even product-wise comparison) and motivate low-performing lines. 
• The production team and industrial engineers are responsible for maintaining line efficiency as well as average factory efficiency up to a certain level. To know their line performance they can’t avoid measuring line efficiency.
• Actual direct labor cost is reverse proportional to the average efficiency of a line. Labor costs can be reduced by increasing line efficiency. If the factory measures its performance daily or monthly, they can check how much they are improving its performance each month.
• To analyze the performance trend of the individual lines
• To find improvement potential and impact on saving by increasing line efficiency

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Also Read | How to Calculate Overall Line Efficiency?

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Few other uses of line efficiency data

• Used in capacity planning for the factory
• Estimating labor cost of the apparel products.
• Calculating performance incentives for stitching operators and other personnel involved in production.

This post is a tiny part of my new ebook "Garment Maker's KPIs: Why to measure & how to measure?"

In this book, I have discussed about 10 factory-level KPIs and department-wise KPIs. Each KPI is explained in the following format.

1. Intro of the KPI
2. Reasons behind measuring the KPI
3. Method of measuring KPI (information that you need to gather for calculating the KPI)
4. The formula used to calculate the KPI
5. An example for measuring the KPI
6. Data capturing form (template) for measuring the KPI

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