Operations Management Case Study

Vijetha Textiles: Process Analysis

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Abstract:
Vijetha Textiles was established by Anup Joshi (Anup), a textile engineer, a year ago. It manufactures T-shirts. The manufacturing of a T-shirt involves various stages like dyeing, cutting, design printing, stitching, checking of quality, ironing and finally packing. The process takes a stipulated amount of time at each stage. However, being a startup the processes of the company are not yet stabilised and the output of the company is ineffective and inefficient. The process gets stuck up at some stages and is slowing down the whole process of manufacture. As Anup is apprehensive that the slow process may bring in losses, he is considering as how to improvise the company’s processes to be effective and efficient. The case study tries to analyse the process of Vijetha Textiles and helps students to design a process that will increase the efficiency and effectiveness of the company’s processes, which in turn will help in increasing its productivity.

Pedagogical Objectives:

This case study helps the students to understand:
• The definition of a process
• Process flowcharting
• Various types of processes
• Measuring of the process performance and reduction of the process time.

Keywords : Operation Management, Process Analysis, Process Performance, Throughput Time Throughput ratio, Cycle Time, Utilization Time, Single-Storage Process, Multi-Storage Process, Hybrid Process, Made-to-Order, Made-to Stock, Setup Time, Little's Law, Process Validity

Contents:

• Introduction
• Vijetha Textiles: The Manufacturing Process
• The Problem of Anup
• Suggested Questions for Discussion