Cycle time reduction for T-shirt manufacturing in a Textile industry using lean tools

Many of the Textile industry fall under SME (small medium enterprise). In recent times, this industry faces many challenges every day to survive its business from global competition. Some of those challenges are poor facility layout, poor workplace conditions, to name a few. It is imperative that the production facility of these industries should be lean to compete with not only with local market but also global market. This paper focuses on reducing the cycle time of the T-shirt production. For this, various lean tools such as value stream mapping, kaizen, failure mode effect analysis, time and motion study are used. The outcome of this study is 20% reduction in cycle times, which resultant 1,50,000 INR saving monthly.