What is More Important- a Skilled Operator or a Sewing Machine?

When it comes for improving factory performance and improving workers performance in an apparel manufacturing…

Advanced Time Study Tools and Their Applications

Time study is a method of measuring the total time taken by a specific operation…

Why Indirect Manpower is not Included in the Efficiency Report?

Why we only add direct manpower in the efficiency report? Can't we add a quality…

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Can an Operator Hit 100% Efficiency?

My answer is “yes” your operator can hit 100% efficiency. Provided that the operator has been…

Transparency: A Certificate or The Behavior?

This article is contributed by Laszlo Szabo from DataS, Romania. During the 29 years in…

Overall Efficiency Vs On-Standard Efficiency

You may know the definition of Efficiency. You may know how to calculate the efficiency…

Review Last Year's Performance Using These 5 Trend Charts

In the new year, you may be starting some new improvement projects for the betterment of…

Who Should Count Operator's Production?

In the manufacturing sector, measuring production of the line, or recording machine's production is a…

Top 5 Activities an IE Does in a Garment Factory

We know industrial engineers (IE) do a lot of tasks as listed in my earlier…

The Cost of Single Blink: Importance of Counting Fraction of a Second in Work Study

In this post, author Laszlo Szabo shows us the importance of counting fraction of a…