9 Video Tutorials on Apparel Production Management Subjects by Vidya-Mitra

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1. Apparel production management: production and productivity
2. Garment machinery and equipment: production machines -1
3. Introduction to apparel merchandising
4. Apparel Production Management – Case study-1
5. Apparel production management: Introduction to production processes
6. Apparel production management: WIP and throughput time
7. Garment costing and pricing methods
8. Apparel manufacturing: Basics of the apparel production process (Operator Training)
9. Batch setting & line balancing

Topic#1: Apparel production management: production and productivity

Video length: 44 minutes | By watching this video tutorial, you will learn the following things.

• Basic concepts of productivity
• Measurement of productivity
• Production: conversion of raw material to finished usable products
• Efficiency
• Partial productivity & total productivity
• Communicating productivity

Topic#2: Garment machinery and equipment: production machines -1

Video length: | By watching this video tutorial, you will learn the following things 

• Sewing machine introduction
• Parts of a sewing machine
• Kinematics of sewing machine
• Stitch types & uses
• Seams & uses
• Types of sewing machines
• Sewing defects
• Bed types
• Feed mechanisms
• Sewing cycle

Topic#3: Introduction to apparel merchandising

Video length:  17 Minutes| By watching this video tutorial, you will learn the following things 

• Challenges of apparel merchandising – fabric, quality, price, comfort, trendy
• Forecasting
• Concepts of merchandising
• Fashion forecasting: predictive assortment
• Elements of fashion: style, silhouettes, fabric, colour, trims, accessories
• Merchandising: design development, production, warehouse management, coordination, planning, buying -selling -activities
• Marketing: creating a demand, meeting that demand
• Right price, right place, right time, right merchandise
• Types of merchandising: retail merchandising, wholesale, export, buying-house, production merchandising

Topic#4: Apparel Production Management – Case study -1

Video length: 50 Minutes | By watching this video tutorial, you will learn the following things 

•  How capacity study planing is done?
•  How a factory set-up is done?
•  How WIP is managed?
•  How Line Balancing is done?
•  Skill Matrix
•  How to understand the line’s performance by an hourly report

Topic#5: Apparel production management: introduction to production processes

Video length:55 Minutes  | By watching this video tutorial, you will learn the following things

• Introduction
• Production & productivity
• Terminologies
• WIP
• Throughput time
• Capacity
• SMED
• Line balancing

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Topic#6: Apparel production management: WIP and throughput time

Video length: 1 Hour 16 Minutes |By watching this video tutorial, you will learn the following things 

• Work-in-progress
• Through-put-time
• WIP
• Effects of WIP
• Control of WIP 
• Through-put time
• Process time, inspection time, move-time, queue time
• Cycle time

Topic#7: Garment costing and pricing methods

• Importance of operator training 
• Industrial Engineers activities
• Establishing operation SAM
• Industrial Engineering terms explained 

Topic#9: Batch Setting & Line Balancing

Video length:  12 Minutes| By watching this video tutorial, you will learn the following things 

• Definition of Line balancing
• Calculation of labour availability
• Operation breakdown
• Theoretical balance
• Required output calculation
• Theoretical operation balance
• An alternative method of batch setting 
• Initial balance
• Operator skill inventory
• Balance control
• Intrinsic balancing
• Dynamic balancing

Conclusion:

There many more video tutorials for apparel production and fashion technology students on Vidya-Mitra YouTube channel. You can watch and listen to lectures that interest you. By watching these e-tutorials, you can enhance your knowledge in the apparel production management field and clarify your doubt on the subjects.