Product Design & Process Analysis ofHirdaramani Industries Ltd.

Presented By : Group 01

Department of Decision Sciences

Content

Current Product & Process Analysis

Theory into Practice

Strengths & Weaknesses

Fly Pocket

Recommendations

Introduction to Hirdaramani

Hirdaramani Industries Ltd.

• One of best apparel factory located in Kahathuduwa, Sri Lanka by exporting woven garments since 2000.

• The biggest markets for Hirdaramani garments are the USA, UK & EU countries & mainly produces garments under reputed labels like Levi's, Penguin, Adidas, Columbia, etc.

• Hirdaramani runs 45 production lines with the capacity of 1 million pieces per month.

• Hirdaramani mainly use Tuka Tec system for pattern and marker making, EDI, Microsoft Dynamics ERP as their technologies.

• Hirdaramani Group has open up their branches in Bangladesh & Vietnam in order to increase their market share & achieve several national & international awards due to their excellence business performance.

Fly Pocket

• Selected Garment Item which labeled under the Columbia Brand.

Current Production Process

Product Design & Process Analysis

• Main purpose is to determine & specify the product that will be profitable to the Producer, Distributor & will give human satisfaction.

• Tools & Techniques: Value Analysis Value Engineering Functional Analysis Standardization Simplification Make or Buy Decision Concurrent Engineering

THEORY INTO PRACTICAL SYNARIO

Value Analysis

• Technique used by an industrial buyer to identify the least costly combination of raw materials or components required to produce a product, without any reduction in the quality of the finished good.

• Application:

At the Procurement & Material Inspection Stage.

At the Pattern Making & Cutting Section

At the Production Line

At the Washing Plant & Warehousing

Concurrent Engineering

• Known as simultaneous engineering, is a non-linear product or project design approach during which all phases of manufacturing operate at the same time - simultaneously.

• Application:

At the Pre- Production Meeting

At the Pattern Making Stage

At the Production of Garments Items

Strengths & Weaknesses

STRENGTHS

• Won several safety & quality awards.

• 100% job security.

• Synergetic team effort.

• Lower level idle time & inventory handling cost.

• Trusted relationship among sub factories.

• Better financial stability

WEAKNESSES

• Occurs machine breakdowns due to not cleaning them properly.

• Differences between employees attitudes.

• Delay of line balancing at the initial days of a new order.

• Not having proper uniform.

• Lack of automated system to measure the efficiency.

• Remote location of washing plant.

Recommendations

• Appoint the separate person to supervise the machines.

• Introduce the Automated System to measure the efficiency of each production line.

• Closely located a washing plant.

• Introduce the uniform to the employees.

• Arrange the training & motivation programs to improve efficiency of employees.