Sustainability in the textile and clothing industry is seen as a subject of the major producers, with many brands divulging their concern about protecting people and the environment and adopting an environmental friendly communication approach. For companies in the textile and clothing sector (especially SMEs), the circular economy provides an opportunity to create new profit streams, increase their resilience to volatile input costs, and support their efforts to become completely sustainable and socially responsible. EU textile and clothing industry needs a flexible workforce that can respond to the development and to the globalised market and the need for sustainable design and manufacturing in order to respond to the global demand for sustainable creative products. In this frame, it is important to have suitable tools to train the employees, to prepare them to deal with these new challenges, to enhance their knowledge, and to develop new skills and competencies for this new type of business. This paper introduces a new training toolkit, which will contribute to the training process of the personnel involved in the textile and clothing industry. This toolkit contains e-learning courses in six European languages, mainly various sources (books, video) and activities (quizzes and forums), which are uploaded and available on the Udemy platform.
Traditionally shoes are made from leather and most of the worldwide population wear it, but there is a particular group of consumers, with an ethical behavior, who prefer shoes made from alternative materials. In our days, the main objective of the fashion industry (T&C, footwear) is to reduce the intensive use of fossil energy, non-renewable raw material and decreasing of landfill waste. In past years, sustainable and ethical consumption has become a popular topic in industries, has gained increasing importance in wealthy countries all over the world. This paper presents some point of view about ethical footwear and the consumer behavior, it also provides a brief overview of global consumption of footwear, as starting point for a new approach of the supply chain of footwear industry. The objective of this paper is to present consumers perception and interests regarding ethical footwear and ethical brands. To reach the main objective of the article, the methodology of the research consists in a survey applied to a target group of Romanian people, men and women, with average to high incomes, interested in buying less but sustainable products.
In order to obtain a better product it is important to integrate the consumer requests in all production levels, starting with research, design and till the end of production process. One of the most popular methods used to increase the quality of a product is Quality Function Deployment. The result of application of QFD method in footwear is presented in this paper. The consumer requests are expressed by completing a questionnaire. The group of respondents consists of men and women, between 20 and 50 years old, who practice fitness more than twice a week. Their opinions are inventoried, analysed and in the end, the most important ones are the input information for the quality house. The result of the study is a better product and for the producers a guideline to obtain a product according to consumer expectations. KEY WORDS: Quality Function Deployment, fitness footwear, quality house. APLICAŢII ALE METODEI QFD ÎN PRODUCŢIA ÎNCĂLŢĂMINTEI PENTRU FITNESS REZUMAT. Pentru obţinerea unui produs de încălţăminte superior este important să fie integrate cerinţele consumatorilor în toate fazele de obţinere, începând de la cercetare, proiectare şi până la finalul procesului de producţie. Una din cele mai populare metode de a creşte calitatea unui produs este desfăşurarea funcţiei calităţii (QFD). Această lucrare prezintă aplicarea metodei pentru un produs de încălţăminte. Opiniile consumatorilor au fost exprimate cu ajutorul unui chestionar. Grupul ţintă este format din bărbaţi şi femei, cu vârste cuprinse între 20 şi 50 de ani, care practică fitness mai mult de două ori pe săptămână. Cerinţele lor au fost analizate, iar cele mai importante au ajutat la construcţia casei calităţii. Rezultatul studiului îi ajută pe producători să obţină produse conform aşteptărilor consumatorilor. CUVINTE CHEIE: QFD, încălţăminte sport, casa calităţii APPLICATIONS DE LA MÉTHODE QFD DANS LA PRODUCTION DES CHAUSSURES SPORT RÉSUMÉ. Afin d'obtenir un produit de qualité supérieure, il est important d'intégrer les exigences du consommateur dans toutes les phases de la production, à partir de la recherche, de la conception et jusqu'à la fin du processus de production. L'une des méthodes les plus populaires pour augmenter la qualité d'un produit est le déploiement de la fonction qualité (QFD). Cet article présente l'application de cette méthode dans la production de chaussures. Les opinions des consommateurs ont été exprimées à l'aide d'un questionnaire. Le groupe cible comprend des hommes et des femmes de 20 à 50 ans qui pratiquent le fitness plus de deux fois par semaine. Leurs besoins ont été analysés, et les plus importants ont contribué à construire la maison de la qualité. Le résultat de l'étude aide les producteurs à obtenir les produits attendus par les consommateurs. MOTS CLÉS : déploiement de la fonction qualité, chaussures sport, maison de la qualité
This paper provides a brief overview of the environmental impact of footwear industry and the end of life solutions. Nowadays almost 23 billion pairs of shoes are produced worldwide every year and most of them are landfilled after their use. Currently the lifetime of a pair of shoes is falling because of the customer preferences and the fast fashion trend at market and fashion industry. As a result, huge amounts of wastes are being landfilled. The aim of this paper is to analyses the environmental implications of shoes landfilling and incineration end-of-life scenarios. To achieve it, these two scenarios were applied in a life cycle assessment of a pair of shoes performed for this study.
In the complicated economic context, will survive only companies who can obtain recognizable products, with higher quality and who are economically efficient by reducing losses of any kind. An example of good practices is represented by SC Fibalco SRL, a footwear company from Craiova, Romania, which emphasizes the development strategy of the Quality Management and the value chain analysis. Fibalco's success is explained by the fact that the value chain analysis is a component of the quality management and the responsibility is distributed pyramidally starting from each employee to the top management. One of the chains in Fibalco's value chain is Industrialization of the new product, which is an element of originality and makes the difference between the theoretical and the practical approaches from the perspective of launching a new product on the market. Due to the Industrialization of the new product chain, in order to make it efficiently reproducible, many risks of failure are eliminated from the design phase, especially those related to the technical execution of the product. The result is a "clean" footwear product with clear lines without unnecessary sophistication. This paper demonstrates that the implementation of quality management and a complex value chain adapted to the company needs leads to brand value and loyalty among consumers.
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