Cutting Room Management in Apparel Manufacturing

Cutting-Sewing-Finishing is the common terminology used for the overall process that takes place in any organisation manufacturing garments via the industrial way. The cutting room or cutting department is the place where all the pre-sewing activities like spreading, cutting, bundling, ticketing, fusing, and embroidery are conducted before the cut components are sent to the sewing department. In a garment factory, cutting department is pivotal from the point of view of controlling the material utilisation, considering the fact that material constitutes 60% of the manufacturing cost. Although the labour cost component in spreading and cutting is very less in comparison to sewing, the process involves material conversion which is irreversible, and hence, it is profoundly significant.