clothing operations manager

manage briefs for clothing manufacturing

Manage briefs from clients for the manufacturing of wearing apparel. Collect customers' demands and prepare them into specifications for the production.

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analyse supply chain strategies

Examine an organisation's planning details of production, their expected output units, quality, quantity, cost, time available and labour requirements. Provide suggestions in order to improve products, service quality and reduce costs.

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communicate production plan

Communicates production plan to all levels in a way that targets, processes, and requirements are clear. Ensures that information is passed to everyone involved in the process assuming their responsibility for overall success.

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coordinate manufacturing production activities

Coordinate manufacturing activities based on production strategies, policies and plans. Study details of the planning such as expected quality of the products, quantities, cost, and labour required to foresee any action needed. Adjust processes and resources to minimise costs.

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make technical drawings of fashion pieces

Make technical drawings of wearing apparel, leather goods and footwear including both technical and engineering drawings. Use them to communicate or to convey design ideas and manufacturing details to pattern makers, technologists, toolmakers, and equipment producers or to other machine operators for sampling and production.

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manage staff

Manage employees and subordinates, working in a team or individually, to maximise their performance and contribution. Schedule their work and activities, give instructions, motivate and direct the workers to meet the company objectives. Monitor and measure how an employee undertakes their responsibilities and how well these activities are executed. Identify areas for improvement and make suggestions to achieve this. Lead a group of people to help them achieve goals and maintain an effective working relationship among staff.

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perform process control in the wearing apparel industry

Performs process control to wearing apparel products in order to assure mass production in an uninterrupted production manner. Control processes to ensure that processes are predictable, stable and consistent.

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apparel manufacturing technology

Traditional and advanced apparel manufacturing technologies. Technologies including processes, machinery, etc. in order to compile and design pattern requirements, contribute to product costing and finalise assembly sequence and quality assurance criteria.

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manufacturing of made-up textile articles

Manufacturing processes in wearing apparel and made-up textiles. Different technologies and machinery involved in the manufacturing processes.

Scope note

The made-up textile article manufacturing is very different depending on the produced products such as workwear or hometextiles (curtains, table cloth, rugs). It starts in the cutting room with cutting the components. The components are joined together in the sewing room. The process ends with finishing operations in the finishing and packing room.

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manufacturing of wearing apparel

The  processes used to fabricate wearing apparel and the different technologies and machinery involved in the manufacturing processes.

Scope note

It includes the distinction of processes depending on the type of produced products, e.g. womenswear, menswear, kidswear.

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mass customisation

Process of modifying wide-market goods and services to satisfy a specific customer need in order to produce wearing apparels within e-commerce, lean and supply-chain management affairs.

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standard sizing systems for clothing

Standard sizing systems for clothing developed by different countries. Differences among the systems and standards of different countries, the development of the systems according to the evolution of the shape of the human body and their usage in the clothing industry.

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inspect wearing apparel products

Inspect and test products, parts and materials for conformity with specifications and standards. Discard or reject the ones not meeting the specifications.

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sew pieces of fabric

Operate basic or specialised sewing machines whether domestic or industrial ones, sewing pieces of fabric, vinyl or leather in order to manufacture or repair wearing apparels, making sure the threads are selected according to specifications.

Scope note

In the case of industrial sewing machines, the operations are computerised.

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