Local knit manufacturers embark on lean journey
Thursday, 3 September 2009
Jasim Uddin Haroon
The local knit manufacturers have started using 'lean manufacturing', a new production practice in clothing sector to raise its efficiency.
Lean manufacturing is a variation on the theme of efficiency based on optimising flow. It uses empirical methods to decide what matters in efficiency, rather than uncritically accepting pre-existing ideas.
Lean manufacturing or lean culture reduces the wastages of knit clothing around 21 per cent, experts said.
Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) in collaboration with German-based gtz is providing the new concept to the local knit sector.
Polo Composite Knit Industry of AJI Group at Savar is the first successful factory of the technique and it is saving Tk 4.8 million each month after its implementation.
BKMEA and gtz officials Monday on the factory premises stressed over the implementation of lean in Bangladesh's garment industry to be more competitive in the world.
"We are now the second largest knit exporter. So we must introduce new technologies to improve the productivity and secure the top position," BKMEA President Md Fazlul Hoque said at a programme organised by the AJI Group at Savar.
`Lean is like the traffic light system,' said Jasim Uddin, the BKMEA official and project coordinator. He described that the ratio of performance and faults of an individual worker is monitored under the technique.
The Polo Composite Knit Industry at Savar implemented the performance enhancement project under lean and it found significant improvement in prevention of wastages.
The AJI Group Managing Director Abdul Jalil Ananta said lean really helped his company learn more organised production management.
The local knit manufacturers have started using 'lean manufacturing', a new production practice in clothing sector to raise its efficiency.
Lean manufacturing is a variation on the theme of efficiency based on optimising flow. It uses empirical methods to decide what matters in efficiency, rather than uncritically accepting pre-existing ideas.
Lean manufacturing or lean culture reduces the wastages of knit clothing around 21 per cent, experts said.
Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) in collaboration with German-based gtz is providing the new concept to the local knit sector.
Polo Composite Knit Industry of AJI Group at Savar is the first successful factory of the technique and it is saving Tk 4.8 million each month after its implementation.
BKMEA and gtz officials Monday on the factory premises stressed over the implementation of lean in Bangladesh's garment industry to be more competitive in the world.
"We are now the second largest knit exporter. So we must introduce new technologies to improve the productivity and secure the top position," BKMEA President Md Fazlul Hoque said at a programme organised by the AJI Group at Savar.
`Lean is like the traffic light system,' said Jasim Uddin, the BKMEA official and project coordinator. He described that the ratio of performance and faults of an individual worker is monitored under the technique.
The Polo Composite Knit Industry at Savar implemented the performance enhancement project under lean and it found significant improvement in prevention of wastages.
The AJI Group Managing Director Abdul Jalil Ananta said lean really helped his company learn more organised production management.