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How To Grade Sewing Operators

The document discusses how to scientifically grade sewing operators into different levels based on their skills and experience. It is a three-step process: 1. Grading sewing operations from easy to difficult and assigning them letter grades A, B, or C. 2. Establishing criteria for operator grading such as the number of operations performed and efficiency levels. 3. Studying each operator's skills on different operations and efficiency to determine their grade based on the criteria. The grades are used to motivate operators and determine pay levels.

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How To Grade Sewing Operators

The document discusses how to scientifically grade sewing operators into different levels based on their skills and experience. It is a three-step process: 1. Grading sewing operations from easy to difficult and assigning them letter grades A, B, or C. 2. Establishing criteria for operator grading such as the number of operations performed and efficiency levels. 3. Studying each operator's skills on different operations and efficiency to determine their grade based on the criteria. The grades are used to motivate operators and determine pay levels.

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How to Grade Sewing Operators?

Prasanta Sarkar
Home > Industrial Engineering 25/01/2012

Generally workers are categorized as skilled, Semi-skilled and unskilled for deciding wages for
them. Others grade operators as A, B or C according their experience and expertise on the job. If
grading of the operators is done scientifically it will help in selection of operators during line
setting of a new style. It also works as employee motivator. When operators upgraded to the
higher grade they get motivated and give extra efforts to the next jump. In most of the factories
operator’s salary is decided according to their grade level (only when operator is paid on salary
basis). In this article, I will explain how factories do grading of their operators and good result in
managing worker.

Grading of the operators is done in three steps.

1. Grading of the operations: 


First operations those are performed in making garment are graded on the basis of i) Critical and
non critical operation, ii) Skill level required to perform an operation, iii) Machine used, such as
Single Needle Lock Stitch, Over edge, semi-automatic machine or Flat Lock machine and iv)
area of operation in the garment. For an example, list of operations has been shown here for shirt
manufacturing factory. Operations are graded into three categories, such as A, B and C graded
operations. Refer to the following table

Grade A operations Grade B operations Grade C operations


Attach neck band &
1 Attach yoke & edge stitch yoke Run stitch neck band
collar with pattern
Set slv placket & stitch
2 Attach main label to yoke Run stitch collar (profile)
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3 Match & set collar Hem front placket Hem cuff or pocket
4 Close collar Attach fashion pkt Close flap at bottom
5 T/S arm hole R/S clr, cuff, flaps Locking operations
6 Match &set cuff T/S clr & shldr Stay stitch or gathering
7 Close cuff Join shoulder Sew pleats
8 Close cuff (folder) Sleeve attach O/L small parts
Prepare main label & W/C
9 Attach front placket T/S arm hole (SNLS)
label
10 Hem bottom R/S side seam
11 T/S side (FOA) Hem bottom
12 T/S side (DNLS) Hem side slit
13 Attach pocket Hem sleeve
14 Attach side seam
15 O/L side seam & arm hole
16 Sew dart (manual)
2. Operator grading criteria:
Factory uses parameters such as how many operations an operator can perform from the above
table and what is their efficiency level at work. In the following table required criteria have been
mentioned against
each grade.

3. Study of the operator’s skill on operations: 

To grade an operator, ask the operator to perform operations listed on the above table. See how
many operation he/she can do with required level. Also check their performance level
(Efficiency %) on the operations. Once you have detailed study of an operator, match it with
table “operator’s grading system” and mark operator. This grades are then added in the skill
matrix.
Grading comes from construction and is used to describe the horizontal levels of a hill or building – the
slope. In sewing, this translates to trimming your seam to various levels making each layer of fabric a
different width. Doing this reduces bulk within the seam area.

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