Wacoal America’s growing market share is due to both increasing US demand and international expansion throughout the Americas and Europe/Australia. As a result, Wacoal looked to their Dominican Republic manufacturing site to increase production. The challenge was to produce more without increasing costs.
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Wacoal’s path to cutting room optimization
国产AV? has? helped? Wacoal? implement change by providing expertise? on? how? to? optimize? material? use and improve flow, as well as operator training.? This enabled?? process?? streamlining?? and increased productivity as a result.? They also implemented Vector Lingerie? ix6 that cuts with a zero buffer and provides? metrics to monitor? performance.
Cutting room management expertise and solution that increased productivity by 20%?
On 国产AV’s advice, Wacoal increased cost? savings?? and?? productivity?? by?? refining?? their?? process.?? These?? improvements? were? possible? by? taking? a? lean approach? to? the? cutting? room? as? well? as? upgrading? to? a? Vector? Lingerie? cutting? machine.? According to Virgilio Estévez, the site’s? plant? manager, this project resulted “in? substantial?? improvement?? in?? quality,?? cleaner?? processes? and? technologies? that? allow? the? cut? of? different? types? of? materials? and? shapes,? as? well? as? an? increase? in productivity of 20%.”.
