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By: Training Within Industry (TWI) pt.3

Training Within Industry (TWI) pt.3 — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 19:17:27 +0000

[...] the interests of context, a brief re-hash from part one and part two: So what is Training Within Industry? The TWI Service was a program created by the United States [...]

By: Lisa B. in Portland

Lisa B. in Portland — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:42:21 +0000

What April said.

And I’d like to have my own shop some day, but I’d also like to teach people how to sew. I still have my book of seam samples from sewing class at AI (even though I’ve been sewing for a looooong time, it was only on home machines and AI has industrial machines [plus it was an easy A ] ).

By: Mary Lombard

Mary Lombard — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 17:42:04 +0000

This is awesome. I didn’t have a clue about this subject; now I have some reading to do! The Rosie the Riveter stories have always inspired me as a woman, never knew there was a training program for those ladies. Lately I’ve been sad about the loss of manufacturing here in the U.S. (even though I’ve been working as an offshore tech for 6 years). I’d love to see a trend to produce here again.

By: shelly

shelly — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 03:51:29 +0000

Kathleen,
Many thanks for the history; it inspired me.

I have known about lean manufacturing since the 90’s, around the birth of NAFTA which created a surge of offshore apparel production. I was working at that time as a “up and coming” designer (very small producer) in NYC. Up until the 90’s a designer needed only NYC (sometimes Brooklyn) to source and deliver an entire line. There were many small suppliers with an array of skilled workers. My contemporaries and I saw the garment industry shrink very quickly and the loss of those sources was uninspiring to say the least.

Now that we have the challenge of dealing with the economic fiasco it could be the right time to train people apparel skills. If we offered TWI training for our youth they could be a creating a “hands on” way to bring their visions to market.

Thanks for FI!

By: April Femrite

April Femrite — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 01:43:23 +0000

Thank you for sharing such a great summary of what we can all only hope to be one day. Articles like this really inspire me to keep doing better, and when he writes that:

“you could be a good clean business, making things without harming a community or the environment, you could be a good corporate citizen and get involved in worthwhile activities that benefit the community and he said you could pay your employees fairly and honestly and for it all, you’d make more money, not less”

It gives me hope and strength to keep moving forward with my mission…..