Obligations of an Apparel Engineer

To manage effectively, an executive/supervisor should identify and divide his/ her obligations to primary and secondary. He/she must first take care of primary obligations adequately. In some cases this means that secondary obligations will have to be delegated to someone under the supervisor’s authority.

I. Primary obligations 
Provide safety
Plan and balance production lines
Control quality
Develop employees
Follow up on low output employees
Material utilization
Discipline

II. Secondary obligations
Bundle handling and movement
Adjustments to machines
Distributes supplies
Handle parts that needs reprocessing
Samples
Maintenance
House keeping
Miscellaneous

III. Daily activities of an executive 

First thing in the morning Arrive early
Greet arriving employees
Encourage them to start work early
Check attendance
Make adjustments to balance the line according to absence
Attend production meeting and discuss yesterday’s results and today’s targets and plans.

• How to increase efficiency
• How to improve outgoing quality
• How to prepare for routine problems or problems that might arise.

IV. During the day
Measure the target vs. actual output every hour Check quality level
Check inline and end line quality reports
Discuss with quality inspectors Perform quality drill
Work with low output operators
Check proper method
Motivate and empower operator
Follow up on new operators in training
Follow up on operator in re-training
Identify the bottle neck operations and balance accordingly
Provide immediate and continuous follow-up to repairs
Monitor and follow up on bundle tracking and outgoing bundles
Authorize any off-standard “clock-out”
Order supplies and material for production

V.  At the end of the day
Make sure the operators have turned off their machines, cleaned their work area, kept a 
piece of fabric under the pressure foot, and covered their machine. 
Check and authorize the production work sheet
Organize production sheets and check the last hour production with the sheet.
Review the hourly production report and WIP report 
Analyze the next day’s needs and take notes for implementation 
Calculate the next day’s initial inventory according to production information

VI. Weekly
Review the capacity studies of low output operators
Plan operator cross training to solve balancing problems

VII.  As and when required
Resolve any operator efficiency problems
Follow up and motivate new employees
Work out quality problems with quality inspectors
Work out problems with operators; review the proper method with them when necessary