Performance Measurement Tools – 3 Cutting （性能测量工具 3切割）.pdf

CMYK Tech Talk Garment industry over the years has adopted various key performance measures from different industries and invented some of their own. In the third part of the article series, Mausmi Ambastha, a budding entrepreneur providing IT solutions for the apparel industry, Director and Founder of intelloCut, with years of experience as a consultant and a former faculty at NIFT, discusses a collection of performance metrics being used in the industry, for enhancing both the operational and financial performance of a business. Some of these measures may not be part of scientific analysis or give a holistic picture but they do serve the purpose for which they have been designed and are being successfully used. Performance Measurement Tools – 3 Cutting and Production Planning In the third part of the article series on Simple Performance Measurement Tools, the author discusses performance measures from cutting, planning and human resource related areas.Cutting is considered to be the most important operation in apparel manufacturing because firstly, it handles the costliest material resource – the fabric. Secondly, the spreading and cutting process is irreversible; the concept of repair or alteration does not work here. Further, and most importantly, due to over-emphasis on measuring sewing department performance, there is a sheer neglect of measuring the spreading, cutting and planning performance. This results in building up inefficiencies, leading to erosion of cost advantag