Productivity improvement is critical in manufacturing industries for sustaining competitiveness in labor-intensive such as the Readymade Garments (RMG) sector. This considered labor, machine, material, and capital productivity indicators to study the productivity performance at a garment company using a case study approach in one of the RMG factories. The results show low level of productivity in the factory compared to recognized industry benchmarks due to inefficiency in the labor productivity and machine utilization. Low productivity is primarily driven by gaps in workforce skills, poor line balancing, elevated levels of defects and rework, recurrent machine interruptions, inadequate supervisory effectiveness, and the minimal use of systematic work-study methods. In response to these issues, the study puts forward well-structured productivity enhancement strategies rooted in established industrial engineering principles.

Keywords

Productivity improvement, RMG industry, labor productivity, work study, line balancing