How to Calculate Needle Downtime in Garment Shop Floor

In an earlier post needle downtime is explained. In this post, I will show you…

How to Calculate Machine Productivity

Calculating machine productivity is one way of measuring line productivity or factory’s productivity. If you…

How to Convert Fabric Price from per Yard to Price per Kg?

Question: Could you please help me to know the basic formula of conversion of fabric…

How to Calculate Lead Time of an Apparel Export Order

In the apparel export business, garment exporters get lead time from the buyer’s end for…

How to Develop Skill Matrix? (with Excel Template)

In today's post, I will show you how to prepare a skill matrix template in…

How to Calculate CM Produced by a Line in Dollar?

An OCS reader asked me this question: Sometimes people ask me "how much CM (in…

Garment Maker's KPI: Why Measure & How to Measure? (the Book)

Thank you for showing your interest in this book. Book title: Garment Maker's Key Performance Indicators -…

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How to Control Shrinkage in Knitted Fabric without CPL?

This question is asked by one OCS reader. He mentioned that he came to know…

How to Minimize Production Cost in Garment Manufacturing?

Nowadays many individuals are starting small scale garment manufacturing business. You might be one of…

How to Calculate Machine Downtime?

A machine mechanic from Sri Lanka asked this question on machine downtime calculation. Question: I’m…