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Fabric used for Personal Protective Clothing (PPE): Personal protective equipment (PPE) refers to protective clothing, helmets, gloves, face shields, goggles, facemasks and/or respirators or other equipment designed to protect the wearer from injury or the spread of infection or illness. As a textile professional, we might have few questions frequently in mind in this Corona-virus pandemic situation.    What Protective Clothing Is Appropriate for   Corona-virus (2019-nCoV) Disease Control?  What quality fabric is required for making protective clothing for Novel Corona-virus Disease Control?  What are the standard requirements for Protective Clothing?  What are the fabric specifications of Protective Clothing?  Why can’t we produce fabric for protective clothing in Bangladesh to support the healthcare professional as currently we are importing fabric?   Is Bangladesh is capable of producing fabric for protective clothing ?   Which quality Protective clothing should use for the p...

Time Study: Definition, Objectives and Advantages (With Formula)   After reading this article you will learn about:- 1. Definition of Time Study 2. Objectives of Time Study 3. Basic Procedure 4. Advantages 5. Limitations 6. Length 7. Number of Cycles to be Timed. Definition of Time Study: Time study may be defined as “the art of observing and recording the time required to do each detailed element of an industrial activity/operation.” The term industrial activity includes mental, manual and machining operation, where:   (i) Mental time includes time taken by the operator for thinking over some alternative operations. (ii) Manual time consists of three types of operations i.e. related with handling of materials, handling of tools and handling of machines. (iii) Machining time includes time taken by the machines in performing the requisite operations. Thus time study standardizes the time taken by average worker to perform these operations. Objectives of Time Study: The main objectives o...

Time Study: Definition, Objectives and Advantages (With Formula)   After reading this article you will learn about:- 1. Definition of Time Study 2. Objectives of Time Study 3. Basic Procedure 4. Advantages 5. Limitations 6. Length 7. Number of Cycles to be Timed. Definition of Time Study: Time study may be defined as “the art of observing and recording the time required to do each detailed element of an industrial activity/operation.” The term industrial activity includes mental, manual and machining operation, where:   (i) Mental time includes time taken by the operator for thinking over some alternative operations. (ii) Manual time consists of three types of operations i.e. related with handling of materials, handling of tools and handling of machines. (iii) Machining time includes time taken by the machines in performing the requisite operations. Thus time study standardizes the time taken by average worker to perform these operations. Objectives of Time Study: The main objectives o...

Calculating Minute Cost of Sewing Line in Garment Industry Introduction:   Minute cost calculation in sewing line is a common and most important task for textile engineers / industrial engineer. Because maximum earning depends on it. So industrial engineers have to do it very consciously. Cost per minute of sewing line in apparel industry is calculated for sewing operators, helpers, line supervisor and quality checkers. Sewing line in garment industry Methods of Calculating Cost per Minute of a Sewing Line:  There are two types of cost per minute (CPM) of a sewing line in garments factory - Estimated cost per minute of a line Actual cost per minute of a line We can explain in the following way,  1. Cost per minute of sewing line,       Total salary of sewing line for one day  = ………………………………………………    Total minutes available × Line efficiency%                            Total salary of sewing line for one day  = …………………………………………………………………………………    Total no. of man power × daily working ho...

How Many PPE Coveralls Can be Made by One Hot Air Seam Sealing Machine? Body Coverall The essential operations in a body coveralls making is heat sealing operations of all seam lines.  Whoever is making or planning to manufacture PPE body coveralls for medical use has all other sewing machines in enough numbers. The bottleneck is a hot air seam sealing one. So a factory's daily body coveralls production depends on hot air seam sealing machines. Here, I have shared the productivity (production capacity) of the hot air seam sealing machine.   To answer this question, I will refer 3 sources  - In a webinar, Dr. K.S. Sundararaman said that PPE coverall manufacturers can make 12-13 body coveralls per hour.  That means you can make 96-100 coveralls in an eight-hour shift. For more information listen to the webinar audio record here.  - Another source has mentioned that a seam sealing machine can produce 10 body coveralls per hour and 80 coveralls in an eight-hour shift.     - Referring t...