Apparel Manufacturing

Standard Allowed Minutes (SAM / SMV) Calculator

Observed time is not standard time. Rating and allowances are what make it a benchmark.

Time Study Stopwatch observation
min
%
Allowances Added to basic time
10%
0% 40%
10%
0% 40%
min

Standard Allowed Minutes

— min

Standard time for one operation on one garment

Implied Output

Basic Time
— min
Pieces per Operator Hour
— no.
Pieces per Operator Shift
— no.
Standard Time per Piece
— s

Rate at least twenty cycles across different operators. A SAM built on one fast operator produces a target the line can never hold.

Standard Allowed Minutes (SAM / SMV) Calculator — free, with the formula and a worked example, at Textile School.