Track: Textile Technology and Readymade Garments Manufacturing

Abstract

This paper specifically discusses the utilization of shoulder tape in t-shirts, which helps reduce production time and lessens fabric wastage. In recent times, apparel manufacturing industries are constantly trying to reduce their fabric waste and use them to ensure sustainability. Therefore, fabric consumption and production time become a prime concern in maintaining efficiency. In the sewing section, the excess motion with the least capacity of the marker tape cutting takes a high pick-up and dispatches time, leading to higher labor costs and fabric waste. Incorporating shoulder tape fabric fabricated from the piping cutting machine helps us to strengthen the shoulder seams. However, the pick-up and dispatching period have also been calculated prior to the body motion. Therefore, it relieves the factory owners from the problem of lower production margins and helps to set up more outstanding production planning. We propose a slitting-cutting machine to have the tape directly through the piping method, which can be set up with the sewing machine over the auto-cutter machine to increase the capacity. Piping will economically help us reduce waste more efficiently and thus for achieving sustainability. Analyzing a factory’s production data as a case study, we have found out how much we can save with this method and considered the proper utilization of the plan that can easily be visible in the stages of production. Therefore, this paper will help us to find a new way of sustainability as to how the piping method of tape cutting can surely lessen the production time and waste but can also bring us more profit.