How to Calculate Apparel Production of Sewing Line?

What is Productivity in Apparel Sector?
Productivity always refers to speed. It is converted of how speedily a product or service of required quality is produced. Productivity is thus defined as a rate of apparel production per unit time or per unit of qualified worker or per unit of faultless machine.
Sewing floor in apparel factory
Sewing floor in apparel factory
It is also a measure of how much output is generated from a certain amount of input or resources. It is thus a ratio of output and input expressed in percentage.
Thus, productivity= (Output/Input)× 100

Apparel Production Calculation of Sewing Line:
In readymade apparel industry, garments production or productivity can be calculated by using the below formula. Here, some important formula also has shown which are necessary to calculate Input-hour, Output-hour and Indirect productivity of apparel sewing line.

Productivity or production per hour in the sewing line,
= (Number of garments produced per hour / Number of working hours)

Example:
A production line of Abonty Fashion Limited works with 45 operators for 10 hours a day and produces 1400pcs dress shirts. The shirt has a standard time of 1000 seconds. Calculate productivity of the line.

Solution:
Here,
No. Of operator= 45,
No. of garments produced per hour= 1400pcs,
Standard time = 1000 seconds,
Total working hour= 10,

Now,
Input-hour in seconds,
= Number of operator’s × Number of hours worked × Number of seconds in an hour
= 45 × 10 × 3600
= 1620000 seconds.

Again,
Output-hour in seconds,
= Number of garments produced × standard time in seconds
= 1400 × 1000
= 1400000 seconds.

Now,
Indirect productivity= {(Output-hour / input-hour) × 100}
= {(1400000 / 1620000) × 100}
= 86.42%

So,
Productivity or production per hour in the sewing line,
= (Number of garments produced per hour / Number of working hours)
= (1400/10)
= 140pcs per hour.

So,
Apparel productivity or production per hour in the sewing line of Abonty Fashion Limited is 140pcs.

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