Industrial Engineers

Industrial Engineers

Welcome to the user guide designed specifically for Industrial Engineers in the garment manufacturing industry using our Garment IO Platform. This guide provides detailed instructions on how to effectively manage styles, processes, and production orders, as well as how to monitor and adjust operations within your factory setting.

Overview of Role and Responsibilities

As an Industrial Engineer in the garment manufacturing industry, your primary responsibilities include:
  1. Adding style categories, styles and assigning operations to them.
  2. Determining and managing Standard Allowed Minutes (SAM) for each process.
  3. Understanding the implications of modifications in styles, especially when active orders are in production.
  4. Creating and managing production orders and incorporating planning data.
  5. Monitoring and adjusting process times based on real-time data.
  6. Tracking the progress of orders and ensuring they align with planned schedules and quality standards. 
  7. Utilize data-driven insights to enhance production areas and mitigate inefficiencies.
  8. Proactively identify bottleneck processes and implement effective solutions to alleviate delays and enhance throughput.

Getting Started with the Platform

Before diving into the specific tasks, ensure you are familiar with the basic navigation and features of the platform. Log in with your credentials, and spend some time exploring the platform, menu options, and settings.

Main Concepts

It is crucial to understand several key concepts to efficiently use our platform:
  1. Understand what is style categories and styles? and what are the differences between them. 
  2. Understand what is Standard Allowed Minutes (SAM) and how to measure it. 
  3. Understand the different efficiencies that can be measured in Garment IO software. 
  4. Learn the consequences of making changes to styles, especially when there are active orders, to avoid disruptions. 

Set Up Initial Data

Add new sizes, fabric types, and colors to accommodate new styles or customer requests. This initial setup is crucial for flexibility and responsiveness in production planning.
  1. Create and manage sizes. 
  2. Create and manage colors. 
  3. Create and manage fabric types. 
  4. Create and manage style categories and standard processes in the system after calculating the SAM times for each standard process. 

Operational Tasks

  1. Everyday before the workers in the factory start operating, the industrial engineer or the planning specialist in the factory should ensure that daily targets are set for each order and section. 
  2. Ensure that active styles processes are updated right to the exact production processes that will happen today on these orders. The industrial engineer should check that processes are updated correctly, and dependencies are set right. Moreover, the Industrial engineer must understand the consequences of changing anything inside active styles and its effects on the batches inside the factory floor. 
  3. Update standard processes machine types and times of the style category. 
  4. Add/update  styles and their corresponding processes. 

Monitoring Tasks

Hourly Tasks

  1. Check the hourly throughput of each standard process inside the factory today. Industrial Engineers can understand more on how to check the hourly throughout per each process, employee and style by reading this article. 
  2. Check pieces ready for production on each process inside the section to pinpoint bottleneck processes and take actions accordingly. Industrial Engineers can know the exact real time pieces ready on each process using the WIP report. 
  3. Pinpoint area of underperformance and determine the falling behind section or line to meet the set daily target by checking plan to perform percentage in the lines/sections performance cards. 
  4. If lines or sections showed signs of underperformance, then it is best for the industrial engineer to know the exact bottleneck processes to take actions accordingly. The system provides a easy visual graph in the processes page that highlights the bottleneck processes. 

Daily Tasks

  1. Check the factory, lines and sections throughput by the end of day and all the orders details inside in the lines throughout report. 
  2. Check active orders detailed info and whether they are meeting the production plan or not and change the next day daily target according to that. Also, the Industrial Engineer should check if the order is meeting the quality standards set by the client and take actions according to that. 

Weekly Tasks

  1. Ensure that the order plans on the Gantt chart are current and reflect the latest updates
  2. Track and evaluate the efficiency of production lines to support decision-making in planning and assigning orders.
  3. Monitor and analyze employee efficiencies to identify top and underperforming employees, and determine the most suitable processes for each worker.

Monthly Tasks

  1. Compare standard processes estimated and actual times to update the SAM times inside the style category page

Troubleshooting and Support

For any issues or questions, refer to this section for troubleshooting tips or contact support for assistance.
This guide serves as your comprehensive manual to mastering the Garment IO platform, ensuring you can maximize efficiency and productivity in your role as an Industrial Engineer.



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