1. Product Design & Process
Analysis of
Hirdaramani Industries Ltd.
Presented By : Group 01
Department of Decision Sciences

2. Content
Current Product & Process Analysis
Theory into Practice
Strengths & Weaknesses
Fly Pocket
Recommendations
Introduction to Hirdaramani

3. Hirdaramani Industries Ltd.
• One of best apparel factory located in Kahathuduwa, Sri Lanka by
exporting woven garments since 2000.
• The biggest markets for Hirdaramani garments are the USA, UK
& EU countries & mainly produces garments under reputed labels
like Levi's, Penguin, Adidas, Columbia, etc.
• Hirdaramani runs 45 production lines with the capacity of 1
million pieces per month.
• Hirdaramani mainly use Tuka Tec system for pattern and marker
making, EDI, Microsoft Dynamics ERP as their technologies.
• Hirdaramani Group has open up their branches in Bangladesh &
Vietnam in order to increase their market share & achieve several
national & international awards due to their excellence business
performance.

4. Fly Pocket
• Selected Garment Item which labeled under the Columbia Brand.

5. Current Production Process

6. Product Design & Process Analysis
• Main purpose is to determine & specify the product that will be
profitable to the Producer, Distributor & will give human
satisfaction.
• Tools & Techniques:
 Value Analysis
 Value Engineering
 Functional Analysis
 Standardization
 Simplification
 Make or Buy Decision
 Concurrent Engineering

7. THEORY INTO PRACTICAL
SYNARIO

8. Value Analysis
• Technique used by an industrial buyer to identify the least costly
combination of raw materials or components required to produce a
product, without any reduction in the quality of the finished good.
• Application:
 At the Procurement & Material Inspection Stage.
 At the Pattern Making & Cutting Section
 At the Production Line
 At the Washing Plant & Warehousing

9. Concurrent Engineering
• Known as simultaneous engineering, is a non-linear product or
project design approach during which all phases of manufacturing
operate at the same time - simultaneously.
• Application:
 At the Pre- Production Meeting
 At the Pattern Making Stage
 At the Production of Garments Items

10. Strengths & Weaknesses
STRENGTHS
• Won several safety & quality
awards.
• 100% job security.
• Synergetic team effort.
• Lower level idle time &
inventory handling cost.
• Trusted relationship among
sub factories.
• Better financial stability
WEAKNESSES
• Occurs machine breakdowns
due to not cleaning them
properly.
• Differences between
employees attitudes.
• Delay of line balancing at the
initial days of a new order.
• Not having proper uniform.
• Lack of automated system to
measure the efficiency.
• Remote location of washing
plant.

11. Recommendations
• Appoint the separate person to supervise the machines.
• Introduce the Automated System to measure the efficiency of each
production line.
• Closely located a washing plant.
• Introduce the uniform to the employees.
• Arrange the training & motivation programs to improve efficiency
of employees.