This book is written for you if you want to learn the industrial engineering basics, about the necessary tools for engineers and activities done by industrial engineers. This book is for you if you want to work as an industrial engineer in a garment factory.By learning industrial engineers subject, you can bring changes and bring improvement in the factory where you are working and where you will be working.An engineering degree is not necessary to improve a factory's productivity and reducing the manufacturing cost. What is required is the right attitude. If you allow yourself to learn industrial engineering tools, you can learn most of them in one month. Then you can practice these IE tools and IE activities in the next 3 months. After that, you are ready for serving the apparel manufacturing industry. You can make things better in a garment factory.You need to find ways of doing things in a better way - which in turn can bring a huge improvement. If you can improve line efficiency by 1% each week, monthly efficiency improvement will be 4%. In a factory, to bring measurable improvement you need to fight against the odds, resistance from the line supervisor, and non-acceptance of new things and new concepts. To fight against these odds, you need to be strong within yourself through being more knowledgeable, logical, analytical, and proactive.This book will enrich your knowledge. The how-to guide part will increase your confidence in finding solutions and answers to the odd questions at the workplace.

Contains each month an "Index to current technical literature."

This book is written for you, if you want to learn the industrial engineering basics, about the necessary tools for engineers and activities done by industrial engineers. If you want to work as an industrial engineer in a garment factory.By learning industrial engineers subject, you can bring changes and bring improvement in the factory where you work. An engineering degree is not necessary to improve factories' productivity and reducing manufacturing costs. What is required is the right attitude. If you allow yourself to learn industrial engineering tools, you can learn most of them in one month. Then you can practice these IE tools and IE activities in the next 3 months. After that, you are ready for serving the factory. You can make things better.

While there is pressure (from buyers), inclination (within self to do better) and a heightened aspiration among apparel manufacturers to use Industrial Engineering (IE) like other more industrialized sectors, there is no specific book as such dealing with IE in relation to apparel manufacturing. The existing books that are already written on IE possess academic rigour and generic functions applicable across industries, thus making it difficult for the practitioners to refer and clear discrete doubts related to apparel manufacturing. Undoubtedly, work study is the centrepiece of Industrial Engineering; however apart from work study, industrial engineers in apparel industry are also supposed to perform various other functions like preparing operation breakdown and operation flow chart, selecting machine type and attachment and workaids, planning machine layout for maximizing unidirectional material movement, optimising inventory and storage space and maintaining workplace health and safety. These are some of the areas that often lack significant attention. This practitioner’s handbook is an amalgamation of theory and practices, including steps of implementation and common mistakes. A balanced approached is taken to make it equally meaningful and useful for the academics as well as the industry. A unique section titled “industry practices” is incorporated at the end of each chapter which shares the typical practices, constraints and benefits accrued by the industry, which will give meaningful insight to the readers and help them relate theory with actual practice.