Training Ergonomics risk analysis

 

Ergonomic two-month online workshop - from October 2, 2021 

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Movement analysis

 

The study of schedule of a technological operation reveals the schedule that allows a shorter path of movement and optimal sequence of grips and movements in the operation. Better schedule and sequence lead to the increasing of labour productivity and better humanization in work, as well as better utilization of existing resources, shortening the total length of moving the objects of work, reducing the number of grips, shortening the duration of the operation.

Organizational model is different from the production technology and it can be made in a written form or acquired during a long series of repetitions, and it is caused by:

• schedule in the workplace,
• sequence of performing the task and
• interdependence of performing the grips.

 The following rules are particularly important:

• workplace must have the optimal size,

• working conditions should correspond to standards,

• equipment should enable work in a standing or sitting position (employee elects)

• equipment should be located in the optimal zone is selected according to the frequency of handling,

• arrange the equipment to provide the optimal sequence of movements in the operation and

• arrange the equipment for supplying the workplace so that it should be optimal in relation to employees and inter phase transport.

Knowledge Management

Knowledge Management has a role to ensure that people have the knowledge they need where they need and when they need, i.e. the real knowledge in the right place and at the right time. There are many definitions of knowledge management, such as:

• Knowledge management is to discover, develop, utilize, deliver, and absorb knowledge inside and outside the organization through an appropriate management process to meet current and future needs. (Ouintas, Lefrere and Jones, 1997).

• Knowledge management is a process that helps organizations find, select, organize, disseminate, and transfer important information and expertise necessary for activities. (Gupta, Iyer and Aronson, 2000).

• Knowledge management is getting the right information to the right people at the right time, helping people create knowledge and sharing and acting on information. (Holm, 2001).

Strategic view on knowledge management considers the union between technology and human factors as a basis for market survival. Some authors even differ the very nature of the concept of knowledge management from other strategic concepts just according to passion, courage and confidence of a knowledge leader.

Knowledge management requires turning personal knowledge into corporate knowledge which can be shared and appropriately applied in the organization. It is most commonly defined as the collective knowledge, including experience, skills, information and data of an organization. Three key factors of knowledge management are people, technology and organizational processes. This concept of management is a key activity in organizations because knowledge is considered to be the most important resource that provides competitive advantages and competitive markets.

Knowledge management aims to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of an organization, allowing employees at all levels to use their knowledge, experience and skills in order to get the right information that will enable the achievement of an organization's goals. That is, actually, the most effective usage of intellectual capital of a business

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Physiological conditions

When the requirements of work are such that a man can overcome them by making an effort, the functional ability of his body and his health are not endangered and there is ergonomic balance. In that sense, the physiology of work deals with:

o Defining the workload;

o Defining the requirements of work;

o Studying human physiological abilities and the size of physiological effort he can make in order to respond to the requirements of work.

(1) Defining the workload

Performing each work is a kind of a burden for the body. The type, intensity and duration of the load depend on the work. Physiological workloads should be such that the body can respond to them through physiological functions, i.e. to maintain homeostasis when working. The load that can not be overcome leads to disorders of homeostasis (the balance in the body is lost) which is an overload that causes fatigue. In case of further increasing the intensity of overload, there is a pathological response of the body, i.e. fatigue. 

Loads can be physical, mental and sensory.

Physical work (the work of skeletal muscles) is a major cause of physical load because of work. Physical work means the work that a man does while overcoming the burden and resistance. Physical work can be dynamic and static work.

(2) Defining the requirements of work

Requirements of work define what the workload and adverse effects require from the organism of workers and can be the following:

- Requests for certain functions of the organism. In addition to general health conditions, the work requires some particularly preserved functions of organs and systems or some particularly preserved or marked morphological features of a man. 

- Requests for certain age limits of a worker. Depending on the age, some functions are established, some are changed, some disappear or are reduced, so that the same work shall not place the same demands on quite young, middle-aged or older workers. 

- Requests for a specific sex of a worker. These requirements are not common, and are based on specific differences in the physiology of female and male body. 

(3) Size of physiological effort

A man must make an effort in order to deal with the load imposed by a certain work. The analysis of work can specify which functions of the body will be exposed to the influence of that work. So the individual workplace should always be analysed, not the occupation.

The bigger the load is, the bigger the effort is, although not all the people make the same effort to deal with the same load. In determining the effort, the following has to be determined:

- the limit of physiological strain at rest,

- the level of physiological response to  work impact, and

- the boundary between physiological and pathological responses.

Read more: ERGONOMICS IN THE GARMENT INDUSTRY

Business Model Canvas

The Business Model Canvas (BMC) gives you the structure of a business plan without the overhead and the improvisation.

The Canvas has nine elements:

1. Customer Segments: Who are the customers? What do they think? See? Feel? Do?
2. Value Propositions: What’s compelling about the proposition? Why do customers buy, use?
3. Channels: How are these propositions promoted, sold and delivered? Why? Is it working?
4. Customer Relationships: How do you interact with the customer through their ‘journey’?
5. Revenue Streams: How does the business earn revenue from the value propositions?
6. Key Activities: What uniquely strategic things does the business do to deliver its proposition?
7. Key Resources: What unique strategic assets must the business have to compete?
8. Key Partnerships: What can the company not do so it can focus on its Key Activities?
9. Cost Structure: What are the business’ major cost drivers? How are they linked to revenue?

8th International Istanbul Textile Conference

Year 2018 looks set to be an exciting year for the textile and apparel industry all over the world.

8th International Istanbul Textile Conference (ETT2018) will be held concurrently with ITM 2018 International Textile Machinery Exhibition and  HIGHTEX 2018 7th International Technical Textiles & Nonwoven Trade Fair.

International Istanbul Conference on Evolution Technical Textile with a theme of “Recent Advances in Innovation and Enterprise in Textiles and Clothing”.

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Customer Relationship Management

Customer relationship management (CRM) is a concept that refers to the strategies used by an organization to improve business relationships with customers.

CRM software dates back to the 1980s — these systems gathered and analyzed customer information, just like they do today — and has become a valuable tool for businesses that want to engage with customers, drive sales and improve their marketing efforts. Think of CRM like a digital Rolodex. It keeps peoples’ contact details — names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. — in one place, making it a powerful resource for marketers. But it also streamlines sales activities and optimizes business processes.

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Mapping of Textile Industry in the Western Balkans Region

Workshop “Industrial Relations” and “Case Studies on Collective Agreements” in Specific Sectors – Telecommunications & Textile, 11-13 October 2017, Belgrade, Serbia 

Organisation design models

CIS Institute and SE-ERGO

The importance of ergonomics was recognized by the top-level laboratory CIS Institute in 
Belgrade. Today with SE-ERGO they have employee training - because they care!

60 years of service to the textile industry....

Garment quality

In order to reach the exact JIT/lean and Quick Response System in today’s garment production, when planning and specification of quality control garment it is necessary to determine its purpose in accordance with the requirements of customers, to specify the characteristics of products and qualitative values. Quality is the source of rationalization, profitability, competition means, factor of productivity and a precondition for security and creating new jobs.

In dealing with garments it is necessary to satisfy the individual tastes of buyers, design and fashion trends, ensuring individuality and resolve issues of durability, endurance and comfort, because creating a successful fashion mark trade and reputation in the market is based on the quality of garment.

The quality of each clothing production requires:

1. product quality,

2. quality of materials,

3. quality of process

- quality of market research,

- quality of design

- quality of procurement of materials

- production quality and

- quality of sales.

Quality of production and material is defined by national standards and the contracts of sale. According to the ISO definition of quality is: "Quality is the set of all the properties and characteristics of products or services related to the ability to meet the established or indirectly expressed needs."

A good example is AQL BD Quality Inspection Center is a professional Bangladesh Third Party Inspection center in Bangladesh. They offering to customer Quality Control to Container Loading Supervision service. They have qualified quality and very experience inspectors and technical team which careful quality inspection at different stages of production can help find most of the quality problems of products, thus you can always know the production status and request to correct the problems at factory even when you are far away from Bangladesh. They can always finish one order inspection within one work day and present the detailed report to you within 24 hours after inspection.

AQL BD a faithfully international reliable quality ready-made garments buying house, and one of the well established and reputed registered buying solutions agent in Bangladesh, sourcing varieties of products, developing, producing, monitoring, controlling quality & timely service as per our customers’ requirements within the reasonable prices.

AQL BD apparel solution: From sketching to making your design a reality full package pattern, design and sampling making services is a great way to get you started when your budget is limited and need to have a full technical team working for you. They apparel solution Center is design and sampling making services include: Fashion consulting, Fashion design, Pattern Making, Pattern Grading, Marker Copies, Computer Marker Yields, Garment Measuring chart making, flat sketching, Sample Cutting, Sample sewing and others apparel solution services.

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Ergonomic design by e-mail

At your request SE-ERGO ergonomic design by e-mail.

Jobs / mobile offices / housework / gardening ... wherever you are ...

Send a photo of your workplace - and you will receive an email with an analysis and recommendation for ergonomic positions and postures.

Quickly and efficiently - time is money! Money invested in ergonomics returns multiple times ...

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Cognitive ergonomics

Cognitive ergonomics deals with mental processes such as perception, memory, thinking and mobility and the way they are affected by the interaction with the remains of the observed system. The most important aspects include mental effort, decision making, interaction with computers, human reliability and work stress.

Cognitive ergonomics concentrates on the analysis of thought processes: mental work load, decision making and planning that are required from knowledge workers (Marmaras and Kontogiannis, 2001).

The process by which a human is orientated among phenomena and things of the outside world is called the cognitive process consisting of: feeling, perception, learning, thinking and memory.

Senses are reflections of certain features of objects and phenomena of the outside world in our minds.

Perception is a process that gives meaning to sensory information, connects previous experience and current experience, establishes and maintains internal cohesion and unity of knowledge about the relevant parts of the outside world, or reality in general. Important objects of perception in organizations are:

o   The perception of work performance.

o   The perception of organizational roles.

o   The perception of personality.

o   The perception of certain groups or categories of members of the organization.

Read more: Colovic G., Ergonomics in the garment industry, Woodhead

Publishing Limited,  2014

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Services

• Ergonomic design of the workplace
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Consultation
• Training
• Posters (ergonomic advice)

Focus

Our focus is "smart work" and optimization of workplaces with lean system!

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CONSTRUCTION AND MODELLING SKIRT

Waist girth= 74 cm

Hips girth = 98 cm

Description of work

By default the vertical line of measure:

Point 1 to Point 2 = waist to hip = 20 cm to 22 cm

Point 1 to Point 3 = skirt length = 60 cm

Point 2 to Point 4 = 1/2 waist to hip + 2 cm to 3 cm = 54 cm to 55 cm

Point 5 is the half distance between Point 2 and Point 4.

From the Point 5 and Point 4 draw vertical lines down and up and get Point 7. 

For forming the side seam for a 1 cm raised the extra horizontal line of the belt line.

Point 1 to Point 6 = 1/2 waist girth + 1 cm

Point 7 to Point 6 = surplus that is distributed to the side seams and dart.

V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE - TEXTILE INDUSTRY

10 June 2016, The College of Textile Design, Technology and Management and Belgrade Chamber of Commerce will organised the

V INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE

DEVELOPMENT TRENDS AND INNOVATIVE APPROACH

IN TEXTILE INDUSTRY

TEXTILE DESIGN / TECHNOLOGY / MANAGEMENT

STANDARDIZATION OF WORK

Standardization of work is a sensitive area of management activity, so mistakes are very common to occur. The risk of error is twofold: if the standards are set too low and if they are set high. In both cases the work efficiency is being lost.

Standardization of work and determining of standards are carried out through seven steps:

Scenario Method for Defining the Strategy in the Garment Industry | Open Access | OMICS Publishing Group

Scenario Method for Defining the Strategy in the Garment Industry | Open Access | OMICS Publishing Group

Optimization of Planning in Garment Manufacturing | Open Access | OMICS Publishing Group

Optimization of Planning in Garment Manufacturing | Open Access | OMICS Publishing Group

Fashion and Development in the Garment Industry

Fashion industry is a multimillion industry. Garment industry is divided into the production of clothes and fashion products. It is focused on achieving optimal results concerning supplies, preparation, production and distribution of fashion products. It is characterized by development of fashion trends, brands, development of distributive network and stores and optimization of logistics from production to retail stores.

Technical-technological development in the last forty years enabled garment industry to implement new methods and procedures and increase productivity while using new textiles and knitting. On that way the industry keeps up with more complex wishes of consumers, demands and fashion trends in the world. The most important tone concerning the rate of growth, design, fashion, utilization and size of assortment is given by centers of large consumption, i.e. the richest countries.

Dear colleagues, share your research and knowledge with us in Journal of Textile Science and Engineering - Special Issue Title: “Fashion and Development in the Garment Industry”!

http://omicsgroup.org/journals/specialissue-textile-science-engineering-open-access.php