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Industry Opinion
Actually, he isn’t a stranger at all because he has been there ever since the first sewing machine needed repairs or adjusting. It is only recently, however, that he has made himself felt as an item of repair cost, and even today, he is found in most plants masked and hidden under another name.
This unknown stranger is the cost of "lost sewing time" and ordinarily he hides in that column of your payroll records labeled "make-up". In other words, he represents the difference between the amount an operator can earn and the minimum wage guaranteed under codes of fair competition.
How much does this amount to in your plant? Visit your sewing room on one of these mornings and add up the number of minutes that an operator sits idle at his/her machine while it is being adjusted. A good plan is to take one row of machines and figure up the idle time due to machine repairs for the entire row over, say, a half-day period. Multiply this idle time by two in order to account for a full day's operation and again by the number of rows of machines to take all of the equipment into consideration. Reduce this into hours and multiply by the guaranteed hourly wage rate.
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We believe the result will surprise you.
You will probably find that certain machines are worse offenders than others, appearing to have developed chronic ailments that require attention most of the time, due perhaps to certain constructional weaknesses, misapplication, or to the fact that they have outlived their usefulness.
Your machinist undoubtedly knows which these machines are. Weed them out and replace them with modern, high-speed, trouble-free equipment, because are costing you real money to operate, not only in the cost of repair parts and labor but in the cost of "lost sewing time".
