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The Garment Industry Productivity Center (GIPC), funded by USAID, helps garment makers in Cambodia improve their productivity to increase profits and compete in the global market.
GIPC began assisting the industry here in early 2006, and since then has helped clients to reduce quality problems, improve controls, and increase their output, in some cases by over 50%. The investment is small and subsidized by USAID; the returns can reach hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Services include consulting to solve specific problems, diagnostic assessments to identify opportunities for improvement, and the training and in-factory coaching to integrate new methods and ensure good results. They include:
- Assessment of factory operations: a review of factory operations, systems and controls, and efficiency to identify strengths and obstacles to high performance, conducted by an internationally qualified engineer. The resulting report provides guidance for higher performance, planning investment, and identifying training needs. The assessment generally takes 1-2 days and is free of charge.
- Evaluating personnel aptitude and skill: How do you identify employees with high potential? In this program GIPC technicians teach your human resources personnel to evaluate the aptitudes of current personnel or new hires and identify critical thinking, motor skills, and leadership potential, or simply match aptitude and occupation. Over 2 days, your staff will observe testing, conduct the tests themselves, and learn to interpret the results. The course is offered in factory, on request.
- Work study – Time measurement and applications: Low productivity wastes time and wages, but, even more significant, you lose the value of the pieces that are not produced. This course teaches how to measure time in manufacturing, and how to use that information to improve efficiency. Forty hours of classroom training are followed by 20 hours of in-factory coaching and guidance in applying the new skills. Course taught at GIPC during half-days, and can be taught in your factory, depending on participation level.
- Improving sewing skills – Trainer Training: Continuous improvement is the key to high efficiency. One of the most effective ways to improve productivity is to teach improved sewing skills in the factory. This course enables you to prepare a small number of supervisors or experienced sewers to train operators. The course focuses on achieving higher speed and better quality, but also on workspace organization to minimize unnecessary movements and reduce fatigue. The course is offered in factory, on request.
- Using computer-assisted pattern maker: As a service to Cambodian garment makers, in early 2007 GIPC installed an automated plotter to produce patterns and markers. GIPC offers an introduction to computer-assisted marker/pattern making, and will produce patterns and markers for factories in Cambodia on a for-fee basis.
- Quality Control System: As we know Productivity can’t go without quality , so GIPC Quality Control have effective process for controlling quality at each step of the making up process, Including warehouse, Cutting room, sewing, and finishing sections to assure that the quality of the fabric and accessories of the making-up operations.
GIPC also offers technical skills training for supervisors, advanced work study, cutting room management and skills, and can adapt its training to individual factory needs.
Consulting and training are led by international apparel engineers and consultants Mr. Heinz Reich and Mr. Gino Marello, and by our Cambodian technical staff. Courses are available in English, Khmer and Chinese.
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