Investigation of marker efficiency combining different size garments and using different width materials

Abstract

Marker efficiency is a very important term in garment industry. We all know that in cutting section of garment industry there is a high possibility of fabric wastage. And with the high marker efficiency we can decrease the wastage. And obviously the lower wastage will secure the loss of time and money. In the garment industries marker planning is done with a single marker width with single size set ratio. But, variable marker width with variable size ratio can be used for maximum marker efficiency. By using variable marker width and variable size set we wanted to maximize the marker efficiency in this research. After getting the maximum average efficiency it was found more efficient than the factory for a particular style. This will help in achieving more profit and loose wastage. We here increased the marker efficiency by 6.01% more than the Factory efficiency and by which we decreased a huge amount of fabric wastage besides getting more profit than before.

Keywords

• marker planning
• marker efficiency
• variable marker width
• variable size set
• cad software