Machinery
You learn what each machine on the floor is for, what it costs, and why the machine list decides which styles you can quote.
After this track you can
You can read a machine list and say which styles it can and cannot make, specify the right machine for a seam, and build the investment case for the one machine that would change what you can sell.
6 courses · 11 h 45 min
- 20.1Sewing Machines and AttachmentsFoundation3 lessons · 1 h 58 minYou follow one polo order on one line in Sri Lanka. You go through the machine list that decides what the factory can quote, the four attachments that took 0.71 minutes out of the garment, and the needle policy priced against the damage it has to prevent before it pays.
- 20.2Cutting Room MachineryPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 58 minYou cost one cutting room in Tangier machine by machine. You price three classes of spreader by the cloth they save rather than the labour they replace. You take five ways to cut the same stack of cloth, with a crossover volume you can work out on the page. And you meet the tooling and marking machines that decide where a fault gets found.
- 20.3Fusing, Pressing and Finishing EquipmentPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 56 minYou cost one shirt factory in Amman at the hot end of the building. A fusing press reads 165 on the dial while three lanes of the same belt reach 148, 141, and 133 degrees at the glue line. You compare a press cell against a tunnel line, with the crossover volume worked out on the page. And you read a finishing hall as a queue, where the bottleneck is not the machine everybody blames.
- 20.4Specialised MachinesPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 57 minOne factory in Central Java put a price on the machines that do one operation and nothing else. You meet a welt-pocket automat whose fixed cycle is slower than the best operator on the floor and still wins, a 12-head embroidery machine that needs more hours than the year holds, and a belt-loop automat bought for a style that never came back.
- 20.5Textile Machinery: What the Mills RunPractitioner3 lessons · 1 h 58 minYou cost one integrated mill at Bhilwara at the machines that make the cloth you buy. You meet the ring frame whose output falls as the yarn gets finer, the rotor that cannot hold a yarn below a hundred fibres, the air-jet loom worth six tenths of a cent a metre more than a rapier, and the jet dyeing machine a failed shade sits in for eleven hours while the airport bill runs.
- 20.6Buying, Costing and Maintaining MachineryAdvanced3 lessons · 1 h 58 minYou take one Binh Duong factory through the money side of a machine. You rebuild an hourly rate from the ground up until it is seven times the one the factory quotes. You price four ways of getting the same work done on one basis, and they land within 1.1% of each other. And you cost three maintenance regimes on a single compressor, leaving the third's answer honestly blank.
Track exam
12 questions drawn from a larger bank, across the courses in this track, passed at 70%. 3 attempts, then it locks for 7 days. It is worth finishing the courses first.
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