Purpose Lean manufacturing has the potential for simultaneously improving competitiveness and social sustainability of apparel industry in developing countries. However, there is limited research on ways to a successful lean implementation countries with an emphasis occupational health safety (OHS) improvement. Design/methodology/approach The paper investigates four cases garment factories uses...

n most computer-generated films involving I virtual humans, clothes are simulated as part of the body and have no autonomous motion. In recent years, however, software has been developed to design 2D garment panels interactively and to optimize the layout of the panels on fabric. For example, Hinds and McCartney’ treated garment panels as surfaces of complex 3D shapes. They represented a static...

Mark planning is one of the most important planning processes in garment industry. The major function is to generate a set of markers which is used as cutting guidelines or cutting templates in a cutting process. In other words, this process can be seen as a planning step of a cutting process which determines what sequence and how many parts will be cut. For the academic point of view, mark pla...

The small scale garment industries have provided a good number of employment opportunities to both men and women of low socio-economic group although occupational health problems among them are not much explored. An observational, descriptive, cross sectional epidemiological study was carried out primarily to determine the prevalence of musculoskeletal and other health problems, to find out the...

The economic status of women is now accepted as an indicator of a society‟s stage of development. Textile industry is the only industry to have employed women workers since long time. Women workers unlike the majority in the informal sector have been exposed to rigorous work, discipline, fixed working hours, specific production norms etc. In TamilNadu, the garment industry is female dominated f...