Production analysis for knitwear



1.     What do we understand by product analysis: analyzing a garments for its fabric contents, knitting construction, styling difficulties, requirements of machines, finishing specialties and technicalities, lab test requirements, special attachment of accessories, criteria of printing and embroidery, order quantity, number of colors, type of colors, type of washing, type of packing and assortment, mode of shipment, mode of payment and shipping destination, sample requirements.... etc.  We need to analyze the product to study the feasibility of doing such product in the own facility on given specified time and space.
2.     Production analysis : is the analysis of any garments to study the type of machine requirement, number of machines requirement vis-à-vis to find out the CM for such garments considering the productivity per hour and also to do the production planning in consideration to availability of machines and other resources......
3.     Detail Analysis :
a.     Fabric/Yarn contents:  Availability problem, procurement problem, dying problem, finishing problem, shrinkage problem, handling problems, sewing problems etc.
b.     Knitting pattern :  Single jersey, Rib, Interlock, Pointal, Variable rib, pique/lacoste, drop needles, double layer knitting, thermal....etc. availability of machines, productivity constrain, needle setting, needle breakages, life of needle, speed of machines etc.
c.      Dyeing:  Number of colors, quantity per color, requirement of special chemical, special finishing, total timing etc.
d.     Cutting constrain:  Shrinkage control by relaxation, skewing control by tumbling, confirming no cross staining for cut and sew garments, maintaining cutting ration as per assortment of  assorted color and sizes, special care for printing and embroidery etc.  
e.      Lab-test requirement: Is it third party lab-test? number of lab-test (Pealing Test, Perspiration Test, Dry-Crocking, Wet-Crocking, Saliva Test, Color Fastness to light, Cross-staining test, flammability test, Test on tearing strength, Test on bursting strength, test on drapebility, cost of lab-test, payment of lab-test, restriction on shipment without lab-test. 
f.       Children safety issue:  Availability of machines and equipments, testing criteria, affecting of shipment, quality/standard of buyers.
g.     Sewing of garments:  number of machines require, productivity per hr and per machine, production cost, standard minute value (SMV) of the garments, Any special machine require for the garments, printing, embroidery, applique, special attachment in the garments.
                       
h.     Finishing of garments: Type of packing (single pack with or without back-board, photo card/inlay etc, type of poly (single/blister), type of assortment (solid color solid size, solid color assorted size, assorted color solid size, assorted color assorted size etc.)
i.       Printing: Type of printing (Pigment Print, reactive print, foil print, emboss print, lurex print, discharge print, flock print, heat sealing print, high density plastic print, boutique print, dip-dyeing (Complete garments dyeing), number of colors, requirement of lab-text, any restriction on dye stuffs, any choice on dye stuffs, any wash standard on dye stuffs, any matching on cut and sew in printing, any conformity with embroidery and vise versa, any shade matching is necessary, any gradation on sizes or defined ratio of %
j.       Embroidery: Color of embroidery, size of embroidery, total stitches in embroidery, any applications in embroidery, any patches/badges in embroidery, any printing in embroidery, any restriction on selection of embroidery thread supplier, any shade specification on embroidery thread.
k.     Washing: Types of washing (enzyme, silicon, stone, stone-enzyme, bleach, silicon with softener etc....
            
  
l.       Special effect of fabric: Water repellant, water resistance, qualifying in flammability test, water/perspiration absorbent,  special colorfastness requirement, special dimensional stability, special bursting point requirement, brushing, micro-finishing, peaching-effect.

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