Washing is one of the most important finishing treatments applied on apparels that have great usage to create special outlooks and improving the fashion. Technologically denim washing is the most important fashion element for clothing industry. The aim of this paper is to determine the effects of industrial stone enzyme wash on cotton-jute blended denim fabric. For this investigation, blended denim (75% cotton & 25% jute of total weight of fabric with twill 3/1 weave construction) leg panels were chosen. The selected denim fabric has been processed by stone enzyme wash, in order to evaluate the washing effects on denim leg panel, changes of fabric specification (ends/inch, picks/inch), fabric tensile strength, GSM, shrinkage, color fastness and rubbing test results has been determined after enzyme wash. Then pH is measured, and SEM test done to check the microscopic changes on the fabric surface.
Agility in the industry is an important issue in this competitive market. Agility ensures the rapid action plan execution in the firm and a suggested plan has been implemented in the industry. In this plan two excel file named "Line wise visual operator status" and "Skill matrix" have been included. In "Line wise visual operator status" file, the hourly updated status of sewing lines like absenteeism, low efficient operator, imperfect operator etc. are shown. And, through the "Skill matrix" it can be found out right operator for replacement and their performance. In the previous system of the industry it took about 75.61 minutes to execute a plan in the sewing line. But, after implementing the current attempt the total time for execution of action plan it takes 38.73 minutes. So, the industry can take the initiatives within 36.87 minutes faster than previous and it accelerates the agility of the industry.
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