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2024 Tutorial 1 Work Measurement

The document is a tutorial on work measurement in the textile and clothing technology division, covering various calculations related to sewing operations, time studies, and standard minute values (SMV). It includes practical exercises for calculating productivity, allowances, and effective activity percentages for sewing tasks. Additionally, it discusses the advantages of using activity sampling over time studies for establishing SMV in the garment industry.

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2024 Tutorial 1 Work Measurement

The document is a tutorial on work measurement in the textile and clothing technology division, covering various calculations related to sewing operations, time studies, and standard minute values (SMV). It includes practical exercises for calculating productivity, allowances, and effective activity percentages for sewing tasks. Additionally, it discusses the advantages of using activity sampling over time studies for establishing SMV in the garment industry.

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Division of Textile and Clothing Technology

Work measurement Tutorial No 01

1. A company has 500 sewing machine operators who are working 450minutes a day.

i. If the SMV of an operation is 15, how many pieces can be completed by one
operator during one day?

ii. If that operator has to wait 50minutes during the day without work due to a
machine breakdown, how many parts theoretically can be completed by that
operator?

iii. In practical situation, is it possible to obtain that amount in question ii?

iv. Explain your answer for question iii.

2. Following is a time-study of a skirt carried out by a work-study officer.

Observed time in centi minutes for pieces


# Elements
1 2 3 4 5 6
Pick up the bundle, untie it &
place on the machine table
1 BP 1: Reach Right hand to the 27
bundle
BP2: Release hands
Pick up parts and sew the
2 centre back seam 160 168 187 170 162 168

Sew first underarm seam and


the first side-seam.
3 1050 1045 1067 990 1030 1035
BP1; Machine sound starts
BP2: Machine sound stops
Sew second underarm seam and
4 1630 1640 1684 1700 1650 1660
the second side-seam
5 Close the bundle and put aside 330

i. Calculate the Basic time per piece, if the observed rating is 80 for all elements.
ii. Consider the standard rating in British Standards is 100.
iii. Calculate the Standard Minute Value (SMV) of the same piece, if the allowance is
10% for all the operations.

iv. Identify possible break-points of each element.

Page 1 of 4 Dr. (Mrs.) K.M.W. Abeykoon


3. The details of a time-study carried out in “attaching a collar band to front neck of a T-
shirt” are given below. Observed times for different elements are given per piece.

Time Elapsed Before Study (TEBS) Time Elapsed After Study (TEAS)
Study start time = 10.30 am Study finish time = 10.45 am
TEBS = 10 centi minutes TEAS = ?

Table 2.1
Manual work Overlock
Total allowances % 10 15
Observed rating (British Standards) 90 95

Observed time in centi minutes for pieces


# Element
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Pick up the bundle of ‘collar
1 bands’ & place on left side of 20 134 248 351 463 562 674 791 902 1008
machine table.
2 Pick up bundle of ‘front
panels’ & place on right side 30 147 259 365 474 574 686 804 912 1023
of machine table.
3 Pick up one front panel &
37 153 267 373 1032
keep closer to needle. 481 583 693 812 921
4 Pick up one collar band and
keep on front panel. 49 167 279 385 488 595 706 824 932 1047

5 Attach collar band to front 107 229 334 445 543 654 774 888 995 1105
panel.
6 Trim thread end and place it
into the side-tray. 112 236 341 451 551 661 779 892 999 1112

i. Calculate TEAS in centiminutes.


ii. Calculate Basic time for one garment.
iii. Calculate Standard Minute Value (SMV) for one garment.
iv. Describe different factors that can be considered for “total allowances’ in
a. manual work and
b. machine work.

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4. Explain reasons for using ‘Activity sampling” for setting SMV for jobs, instead of ‘Time study’
in the garment industry. Work-study unit had carried out an activity sampling to establish
SMV for the ironing section.

4.1. Table 4.1: Observations of the work-activities.


4.2. in a garment factory. The observations that were taken from 15 days and the total
#
number Work-
of pieces ironed Activity
during Observations
the period was 60,000 are given in Table 3. Observed
1 isWorker
rating given inidling
British Standards. 2100
2 Out of the workplace 240
3 Talking 260
4 Filling water to the iron 2250
5 Remove the garment from the hanger 1010
6 Put the garment to the ironing table 1020
7 Ironing 7800
8 Put the ironed garment in the hanger 1015
9 Put the hanger in the trolley 1012
10 Personal work 325

Number of workers in the section = 3


Observed rating of operators = 80
Working time/day = 8 hours
Fatigue and rest allowances = 10%
Calculate
i. effective activity percentage.
ii. SMV for ironing one piece.

5. Activity sampling has provided following data.

# Activity Observations
A. Parts handling (…..) 12
B. Aligning 8
C. Sewing 5
D. Threading 7
E. Bobbin changing 10
F. Machine repairing 20
G. Talking 10

i. Calculate the percentage value of each activity.

ii. What are the value adding activities?

6. An operator works for eight hours a day. A work sampling study shows that he was
idle for 15% of the day and he worked the remainder of the day at an observed rating
110. The record showed that he turned out 420 pieces of acceptable quality during
the day. Calculate SMV, assuming 15% allowance.

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7. Why it is used ‘Activity sampling” for setting SMV for jobs, instead of ‘Time study’?

Work-study unit had carried out an activity sampling to establish SMV for the ironing
section in a garment factory. Below given are the observations that were taken from
15 days and the total number of pieces ironed during the period was 60,000. Observed
rating is given in British Standards.

#
Activity Observations

1 Worker idling 2100


2 Out of the workplace 240
3 Talking 260
4 Filling water to the iron 2250
5 Remove the garment from the hanger 1010
6 Put the garment to the ironing table 1020
7 Ironing 7800
8 Put the ironed garment in the hanger 1015
9 Put the hanger in the trolley 1012
10 Personal work 325

Number of workers in the section = 30


Observed rating of operators = 80
Working time/day = 8 hours
Fatigue and rest allowances = 10%
Calculate
i. effective activity percentage
ii. SMV for ironing one piece.

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