Apparel Manufacturing

Garment Factory Machine Requirement Estimator

Machine counts always round up. Two thirds of a machine sews nothing.

Demand Target
pcs/day
min
Capacity Available time
min
65%
20% 100%
10%
0% 40%

Machines to Install

— no.

Rounded up, including spares

Capacity Working

Machines Required
— no.
With Spare Allowance
— no.
Total Machine Minutes Needed
— min
Effective Minutes per Machine
— min

Efficiency here must be the machine utilisation actually achieved, not the operator efficiency quoted in payroll. The two differ substantially on multi-skill lines.

Garment Factory Machine Requirement Estimator — free, with the formula and a worked example, at Textile School.