Business Expansion
Foreword
The aim of this project is to advise an existing company on a number of issues relevant to the expansion of its business. The company that we had to advise is Cottontex, specialised in men’s and women’s blouses, shirts and trousers. Cottontex has the idea to expense it’s business with a skirt collection. To advise Cottontex the best as possible we first had to investigate if it would be realistic to expend the business of Cottontex. We had to set up a new production facility, which includes issues related to the expansion of the production facility. We also had to calculate what the cost will be for Cottontex, if they would expand their business.
Summary
The starting point of the project is the product. The required product is a straight cotton skirt in a dark blue colour. To gain more knowledge about the specifications of the skirt, a technical model specification and a general model specification are required. In the technical model specification the model description, sizes, details, seam types and the condition of delivery can be found. In the general specification model can be found a sample of the fabric and thread, an overview of the haberdashery used for the skirt and the washing instructions.
The total operational time of the skirt is calculated in centiminutes. 1 Centiminute is equal to 0.01 minute. The operational time to produce a skirt is 384 centiminutes, this means that it will take 3.84 minutes to produce one single skirt.
All the production lines have to be balanced like in a big puzzle, where all the pieces have to fit into each other to get a good looking end result. Balancing loss of time could happen because during a whole working day some problems can occur, which makes that the successive production times of all the actions vary. When we speak about 'Balancing' we mean the interactions between people and machines, which have to bring the highest possible production rate and a as low as possible delay, what is called
The aim of this project is to advise an existing company on a number of issues relevant to the expansion of its business. The company that we had to advise is Cottontex, specialised in men’s and women’s blouses, shirts and trousers. Cottontex has the idea to expense it’s business with a skirt collection. To advise Cottontex the best as possible we first had to investigate if it would be realistic to expend the business of Cottontex. We had to set up a new production facility, which includes issues related to the expansion of the production facility. We also had to calculate what the cost will be for Cottontex, if they would expand their business.
Summary
The starting point of the project is the product. The required product is a straight cotton skirt in a dark blue colour. To gain more knowledge about the specifications of the skirt, a technical model specification and a general model specification are required. In the technical model specification the model description, sizes, details, seam types and the condition of delivery can be found. In the general specification model can be found a sample of the fabric and thread, an overview of the haberdashery used for the skirt and the washing instructions.
The total operational time of the skirt is calculated in centiminutes. 1 Centiminute is equal to 0.01 minute. The operational time to produce a skirt is 384 centiminutes, this means that it will take 3.84 minutes to produce one single skirt.
All the production lines have to be balanced like in a big puzzle, where all the pieces have to fit into each other to get a good looking end result. Balancing loss of time could happen because during a whole working day some problems can occur, which makes that the successive production times of all the actions vary. When we speak about 'Balancing' we mean the interactions between people and machines, which have to bring the highest possible production rate and a as low as possible delay, what is called