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COMPARATIVE STUDY ON THE PERFORMANCE OF SEWING LINE OF AN APPAREL INDUSTRY BEFORE AND AFTER EXECUTION OF 5S PHILOSOPHY (Pages : 12 - 16)

This article represents the implementation of 5S philosophy- one of the major lean tools where comparative study of an apparel sewing line is observed to find the changes of productivity and efficiency. Lean originates in Japan in 1930 at Toyota industries which is also known as Toyota Production System (TPS) and implemented in Japanese Industries since 1980`s. 5S means Seiri (sort), Seiton (set in order), Seiso (shine), Seiketsu (standardize) and Shitsuke (sustain). The goal of 5S is to increase productivity by reducing non-value added products-muda, work place organized in a better manner, the fewer search, transport and waiting time reduces so save working time which can be used value adding activities leads to better productivity, more profitability as a result and it will give advantages over competitors. In this work, the production data of a knitted basic T-Shirt line have been taken and evaluated results in two phases; in first phase data have been collected from sewing line without implementing 5S method and in the second phase implemented 5S method for the same line to observe the improvement.Download