Analyzing Current Scenario of an RMG Factory in Bangladesh to Maximize Process Efficiency
Abstract
Bangladesh earns abundant remittance by exporting RMG products. But it has been observed that less process efficiency in an RMG factory causes lower productivity. So, they are concerned with increasing process efficiency to gain the global market. The purpose of the research is to maximize the efficiency by studying and analyzing the major processes of a selected RMG factory. Especially, the time study has been done on each sewing floor and cutting table to calculate the standard allocated minute (SAM). Those data have been analyzed using line chart, bar chart. The findings shows the efficiency for swing line lies between 47% and 25% and for cutting section lies between 45% and 25%. So, the reasons behind less efficient areas have been identified using motion study and root cause analysis. Then some possible remedies like eliminating unnecessary tasks, redesigning the facility layout were suggested to eliminate those reasons.
Conclusion
The analysis of process efficiency of major processes of the selected factory and reasons behind less efficiency were presented in this research. The result shows that efficiency of every major process is not to the standard level. In some cases, the efficiency is too low which indicates high waste of resources specially manpower. For achieving better performance in industrial process the factory must increase their process efficiency by reducing waste of resources and by taking necessary steps. So implementation of some steps in each section as recommendation can help the factory to achieve better process efficiency than current situation. But due to time and financial limitation only one RMG plant was considered for this research work. And as these recommendation did not implemented, implementation of these steps and their affects can be studied further.