IE Guide to Job Interview Preparation

Table of Contents of the Book (IE Guide to Job Interview Preparation)

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Inside the book you will get answers of the following 50 Frequently Asked Questions.

 

	Table of Contents
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48.	What is Industrial Engineering?  What is the basic Functions of Industrial Engineering department in the garment industry?    What is work measurement? What techniques are used for work measurement?     What is Pitch time? What is Needle Time? What is the percentage of needle time of total working during a day? Define Standard Time (SMV and SAM)? How to calculate Standard Time (SAM) of an operation using Time Study method? What is rating (performance rating)? What is line efficiency? What is the formula for calculating Line efficiency? How to measure factory efficiency? How to calculate (production) target for a sewing line? How to set hourly target for an operation? Garment operation breakdown (approximate SAM, Machine, Target)  What is productivity? How to calculate labor productivity and machine productivity? How will you improve productivity of a line? How do you improve efficiency of a line? What is the difference between production and Productivity? What is TMU in motion analysis? How many TMU is equal to one seconds and one minute?  What do you mean by bottleneck operation? How do you find bottleneck operations in a line? What is Line balancing? How do you balance a line? Why it is important to balance a line? Did you work on balancing a line? Why work aids are used in sewing? Name few basic attachments and guides used in a sewing operations. What is learning curve? What is the application of the learning curve in garment production? What is off-standard time? How you would track off-standard time (Non-Productive time)? Thread consumption ratio/factor for different machines? Calculate Thread requirement for this (provide you a garment) sample. How to calculate Labor Cost in production? How to calculate manpower requirement for production? What is Line Setup time and Operation Cycle Time? What do you mean by improving? What is Time Study? Why do you do Time study? What is Method Study? Why Method study is important? Or what are the objectives of method study? What are the steps of method study? Name some special sewing machines. What improvements would you suggest for a sewing floor? What are the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of a factory? What is the difference between an Industrial Engineer and a Production Person? Which one is better method to know factory performance, Productivity or Cost per standard minute (SAM)?  Give me some examples of improvement work you have done in the previous companies (Creative Work). What is Sewing Operator Skill Matrix? What are the benefits of skill matrix in Production? What is throughput time? What should be the throughput time of an average style? How would you find throughput time of a style? What is lead time, order changeover time and idle time? How do you hire sewing operators? Explain Basic Concept of Lean Manufacturing? Name few common lean tools that are used in apparel manufacturing? How many machines are you handling in the current company? Can you work on excel sheet (MS Office Spreadsheet)? How much computer skill do you have?  What all reports do you make in the company where you are currently working? Are you a trained IE or GSD practitioner? What you know about GSD? Can you run sewing machine?    How to measure factory performance? How to measure individual operator performance?            Annexure: Interview Question sets Personal Interview (PI) Preparation

Learning Industrial Engineering

How I Learned Industrial Engineering (and How You Can Too)?

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For last 3 years I'm writing tutorials on Industrial Engineering topics ... and I learned many things on Industrial Engineering in this process. How did I learn that much of Industrial Engineering?

In this post I will share methods that I used to learn (and still using) Industrial Engineering and how you can too learn it. These are non-traditional learning methods but very effective. You can copy my techniques and learn Industrial Engineering.

Learning by doing: 

I don't have an Industrial Engineering degree. Whatever I know and learned about Industrial Engineering is by doing it myself. I read Industrial Engineering topics in college. I had seen many IEs to practice Industrial Engineering methods and to use IE tools in factories during my Internship and Graduation Project. When I was heading the Production Planning Department in an export house, I used to implement basic Industrial Engineering tools in the factory. I did many mistakes initially but I learned from my mistakes. 

So you can too learn Industrial Engineering by doing and practicing it on the floor. While doing something first time, you might make mistakes. That is the way to learn things. Keep it up. I learned production planning and merchandising also by doing it.

Learning by teaching others: 

I love to teach learners. Earlier I used teach my subordinates. When I was consultant I taught many participants from client companies. When I teach others I learn many things in the teaching process. You might read IE tutorials (articles) in OCS. Do you know how I learned all those topics? All because of OCS readers who force me to learn, so that I can teach them later and can write new tutorials. I get questions on various topics from OCS readers. I prepare the answers and when I prepare answer for a particular question, I need to research and read the topic first. Thus I learn it. 

To learn IE you can too start teaching your subordinates or juniors. You don't need to be master in your subject to teach others. Whatever you know more than others you can start teaching with that only. When you start teaching, you will be asked questions by your students. It is not necessary that you have to know all answers. If get chance you can learn the answer of the question and answer to your students. If don't find your student start teaching others from production department. 

If nobody asks you question, head over to OCS Forum and give answer to the questions that are posted there by other members. 

Learning by asking questions: 

This is the easiest way of learning something. When I meet with Industrial Engineers in export houses I ask different types of questions to them for clarification. I get answers for most of the questions, as they are working on this field for many years they know the answer. You can also start asking question to your seniors, when you need to know something. If you don't have senior or experienced colleague, you are welcome to send your questions to me or post your questions to the OCS Forum. 

Reading articles online and/or off line: 

I read articles on magazines or in the Internet daily. I learn many things by reading and also discover new areas of learning by reading. My reading topics are not limited to apparel production and Industrial engineering only. I read various topics to get ideas.

You can also start reading technical magazines related to Apparel Production Management and Industrial Engineering. If you don’t like to spend money on print magazines, read free articles on the Internet. By reading articles on Industrial Engineering you can increase your knowledge and you can teach others a new topic. 

Discussing topics with your colleagues and seniors: 

This is a great way of learning. Currently I don't have Industrial Engineering colleague. But I spent 2 and half years with a group of IEs. That time we had lot of discussion on Industrial Engineering. Still I practice this process of learning. As I said I regularly visit garment export houses. When I meet with factory IEs, we discuss things whatever we find interesting, within IE or out of IE topics. 

Watching videos on YouTube: 

YouTube is a great source for learning by watching videos. You will find numerous videos on sewing operations for different products, semi automatic and fully automatic sewing machines, and different types of material handling equipment. When you watch videos, observe it closely. You can learn many things like, good movements, workstation layout, working speed, machine types, attachment and guides used and many more things. 

Conclusion: 

There is no end of learning. And nobody can improve his/her performance continuously without learning. I have explained above how to learn Industrial Engineering. But these techniques are applicable to anything you like to learn.