BKMEA to introduce productivity service for knit industry

25 Apr '06

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Bangladesh Knitwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association (BKMEA) are going to introduce productivity improvement service for knit industry with financial support from European Union (EU), sources said.

BKMEA and EU will sign an agreement next month to implement a project titled Capacity building of the knitwear sector through productivity improvement in this regard for one-year period.

BKMEA President Fuzlul Haque said, the cell will develop guidelines on productivity for knit industry, he added.

More than 30 people will undergo training for nine months to develop their capacity as productivity experts. More than half trained persons will join productivity cell and others knit factories, BKMEA sources said.

BKMEA cell will take service charge from knitwear factories for providing productivity service.

The programme includes topics like tool and techniques of productivity and efficiency, quality issues, application of quality management techniques in knit production, work study time and method study, factory layout planning, inventory management, machineries maintenance, specialised needs of production management techniques.

The South Asia Enterprise Development Facility (SEDF) provided financial support to Department of Industrial & Production Engineering (IPE) as a service provider last year to develop efficiency and productivity in readymade garments.

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