What are 8W of garment manufacturing? Write down name & describe shortly.

What are 8W of garment manufacturing? Write down name & describe shortly.

What are 8W of garment manufacturing? Write down name & describe shortly.

Answer: Waste is any step or action in a process that is not required to complete a process or that is non-value-added activity. 8W means eight wastages. They are:

1. Motion: Excess motion increase garment manufacturing time. Like turning, bending, lifting, moving etc.

2. Inventory: Inventory is a loss that reduces profit. Like stored parts, equipment, materials, documents etc.

3. Transportation: Excess transportation increases garment manufacturing time. Like movement of people, materials, information etc.

4. Waste: Waste is a loss which reduces profit. Like waste material, parts, equipment etc.

5. Overproduction: It is one kind of inventory. Like producing or making more than requirement.

6. Over processing: It increases garment manufacturing time & cost. Like beyond tolerance or grade or number etc. than required.

7. Defect: It decrease garment quality as well as increase nonproductive time. Like rework, correction, scrap, incorrect data fixing etc.

8. Skill: It is the root of loss, less efficiency or non-productive time. Like underutilized capacity, less or no trained worker etc.