Garment sewing data

Garment sewing data is required in Ready Made Garment (RMG) manufacturing for the Industrial Engineers, Work-study officers or professionals to perform the preparatory work. One of the outcome of such preparatory work is estimation on labor requirement. Once the labor requirement is found the Industrial Engineering or work-study professionals can prepare a suitable sequence of workers, which is known as line layout in industrial sewing.
Garment sewing data has many other users one of them being standardization of work. Predetermined motion time system is a branch of Industrial Engineering associated with these topics. There are many books written on this subject. Read more on MTM here: Methods-time measurement
How to do sustainable labour costing
Published by University of Manchester, the Working Papers of "Capturing the Gains, global summit" brings together an international network of experts from North and South. The research programme is designed to engage and influence actors in the private sector, civil society, government and multi-lateral organisations. It aims to promote strategies for decent work in global production networks and for fairer international trade.
Working Paper 14 on manufacturing price (cut-make-trim, CMT, cost)
The Working Paper 14 focuses on a specific feature of buying behaviour in the UK fashion retail industry: the negotiation of a manufacturing price (cut-make-trim, CMT, cost) with suppliers that does not separately itemize labour cost. This practice, tacitly supported by both buyers and suppliers, is examined against the backdrop of ongoing wage defaulting and import price deflation in the global apparel industry. While wage non-compliance cannot be explained solely by this buying practice, since other commercial practices and factors may have an equal if not greater impact on a supplier’s liquidity/ability to pay on time and in full, the case is nevertheless made that an absence of labour costing must inevitably have an effect on the capacity of a factory to deliver an order at a negotiated price and to meet compliance benchmarks at the same time. The paper attempts to construct a formula for sustainable labour pricing at the buyer end using industrial engineering principles that appear to have been lost in the truncation of buying firms caused by international sourcing.
Welcome to the New Global Garment Industry 2014
David Birnbaum the supply chain expert has written new directions in 2014 at his own blog titled "Welcome to the New Global Garment Industry." He argues the recognition of the importance of INDIRECT COSTS has changed everything about the industry.
http://www.birnbaumgarment.com/2014/06/21/welcome-to-the-new-global-garment-industry-2/
Lean manufacturing and standardization will play a key role if that is so.

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