Pop Quiz: Designing a t-shirt sewing cell

By Kathleen Fasanella on May 23, 2012 at 4:54 pm

Here’s a different kind of challenge for you -beginning industrial engineering using the simple example of t-shirts. Are you excited yet? Don’t go away, it could be fun and you may be surprised at how well you do. But first I want to tell you about a free Juki app for iPhone and iPad (HT: Jessica Montoya) because it can be used as a sort of cheat sheet and also, I am using some of the images from it (without permission) but Juki may look the other way if I plug it. Then again they may not, they’re tightening down their IP. But anyway, the app is pretty neat.

The Item List screen loads a selection of products to choose from. You pick an item and the application loads a schematic of the product with its seams in call outs listed by number. Below the schematic, each number lists the kind of machine you need to form the seam along with the model numbers. The model numbers themselves are also hyperlinks so you can read about the machine, its specifications et cetera.

Now back to our challenge which comes in two parts. You don’t need the application to do this challenge and can instead, follow the provided links above. For what it’s worth, I didn’t use the app to come up with what I think is an optimal solution.

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