Friday 23 March 2018

How to make line plan for garment production

Line plan:Daily production target plan of multiple styles in order to meet delivery date of each style by keeping in knowledge about line capacity as per construction features and order quantity of each styles.  Line plan is the key aspect in garment planning division. Planning section is making the production out cum plan as per line capacity in order to achieve delivery date. Planner needs to do backward and forward planning based on lead time.Mostly line planning is made after discussion with team of Production and IE.

In order to make target achievable line plan you should have to keep below require data when making a line plan.
1. Order detail sheet
2. No Of Line and there capacity
3. Style SAM as per quality stander
4. Average manpower absenteeism percentage
5. Production lead time of an order
6. Holiday list

See below line plan chart to understand all above requirement sequence wise in order to make a line plan.

1. Order detail sheet:Order Detail sheet is the first requirement for making a line plan in order to take decision about line selection for an order as per there quantity and production lead time considering delivery date.
Order No
Category
Order qty
Delivery date
MARITO
Trouser
6400
31st July
Jet king
Trouser
33000
31st Aug
Merina
Trouser
2336
3rd Aug
Elvis
Trouser
5400
4th Aug
Ertica
Trouser
6000
19th Aug
Stylek
Trouser
3240
28th Aug


2. No Of Line and there capacity: Its very important for a planner to know about No of production line available for total order in hand.Capacity of line is require to set daily production target of an order.Average Line capacity chart can be prepare as below.
Line No.
No. of Operator
Minutes/Day
Line Efficiency
Absenteeism %
Capacity available
(Daily working Hrs. X 60)
Line 1
30
480
40%
10%
5184
Line 2
28
480
50%
10%
6048
Line 3
32
480
55%
10%
7603.2
Line 4
32
480
45%
10%
6220.8
Line 5
25
480
39%
10%
4212
 
3. Style SAM/SMV : Stander allowed minute or stander minute value of  style helps a planner to fix daily target qty of a line by calculating production rate through it.

4. Average manpower absenteeism percentage: Man power absenteeism is common in garment or any other industries.Line capacity can't complete without knowing absenteeism in order to make actual capacity of production line.

5. Production lead time of an order: Production lead time helps to select no of production lines for  style as per there qty to complete production on time.
Order No.
Loaded to Line No.
Order Quantity
Style SMV
Capacity Required (Minutes)
Capacity available per day
Capacity Required (Days)
MARITO
Line-1
6400
28
179200
5184
35
Jet king
Line-2
33000
25
825000
6048
136
Merina
Line-3
2336
20
46720
7603.2
6
Elvis
Line-4
5400
10
54000
6220.8
9
Ertica
Line-5
6000
18
108000
4212
26
Stylek
Line-1
3240
28
90720
5184
18
 

6. Holiday list: List of holiday need to know while making line plan order to extend the date if there any holiday in between.

Style change production lose need to be consider while making a line plan, for example-  If line-1 per day capacity for style is 400pcc. But production starting days (first,second and third day) the output will be in ascending orders like- First day-50pcs, second day-150 pcs, and third day-300pcs after that out cum will be 400pcs/day.














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