A detailed course aimed at Supervisors within the Clothing Industry, promoting an understanding of Quality, Balancing, and Work Study as well as imparting essential behavioral skills

• Quality and the supervisor,
  • Responsibility,
  • Machine quality,
  • Causes of poor quality,
• Sewing faults,
• Cutting faults,
  • Housekeeping,
  • Needle problems, Sewing,
  • seaming & assembly defects,
  • Roving quality control,
  • How garments should be examined.
• Role of the supervisor
  • How good are you?
  • What do you know about your company?
  • What is a supervisors role?
  • Do’s and Don’ts,
  • A supervisors job profile.
• Work study and Pro-SMV
  • Efficiency,
  • Use a stop watch,
  • Allowances,
  • What is productivity,
  • How to help poor performers,
  • Garment engineering,
  • Workplace layout,
  • Pro-SMV Practical session
• Line balancing and production planning,
  • What is it?
  • Throughput time,
  • Progressing work,
  • How to balance a line,
  • Setting up a line,
  • Running the line,
  • Production reports
• Communication,
  • Motivation for the supervisor.
    

These aspects of value added learner input to the course are considered to be vitally important, in order for the learner to glean a better understanding of the material given.

The aim is to give as much information as possible without overloading the learner, and keeping an element of fun and unpredictability.