In the garment manufacturing business, an operation bulletin is a very essential tool. To make an operation bulletin, you need to first work on breaking down operations involved in a given garment style. The process is called operation breakdown. To understand the operations involved in constructing a garment, you need to study and analyze the construction process of the garment.
Each garment is constructed and finished by following several stitching operations, manual operations, inspections, and then finishing operations. Jobs or tasks involved in making a garment are known as operations.
In mass garment manufacturing, before making garments, the garment sample is studied and a list of required operations for making the approved design is made. The operations are written in a sequence of actual process flow to be followed while making the garment on the shop floor.
What is operation breakdown?
- list of sewing and non-sewing operations
- Name of the machines to use for doing the specific operations
- Estimated time to do each operation for one unit
One sample operation breakdown of a Polo shirt is shown in the below image.
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| Fig: Sample operation breakdown sheet of a Polo Shirt |
A garment 'operation bulletin' is also called an operation breakdown. An operation bulletin includes more information than the operation breakdown.
I have posted an article on how to make an operation bulletin. In that post, the method of making an operation bulletin is explained in detail.
Application of operation breakdown
- The operation breakdown of a garment is prepared to understand garment construction - like identifying stitch class, and seam types used in making the sample garment.
- By doing breakdown of garment operations, you can prepare the process flow of the sewing operations.
- To make an operation bulletin the first step is doing the operation breakdown of the sample garment.
- To make the list of sewing machines and equipment required for the making style.
- To set up a line for new style operation breakdown is followed by line supervisors and engineers.
- For estimating thread consumption of a style, the operation breakdown is referred to operation list and machine types.
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