In today's manufacturing market, businesses are striving to find ways to become more efficient. In the garment industry, manufacturing throughput time is the time between the release of an order to the factory floor and its receipt into finished goods. The throughput time is also called changeover time. Throughput time in manufacturing garments plays a very important role in reducing work-in-process time and improving garment quality with less production cost. It also reduces the time required to respond to customer orders. The factors responsible for the reduction of manufacturing throughput time can be somewhat confusing because throughput time reduction can indeed be a challenging task due to the many factors that influence it and their complex interactions. There are some basic principles that, when applied correctly, can be used to reduce manufacturing throughput time.

 

 

 

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