The purpose of this research is to analyze how Hanger System effectively operates in apparel sewing assembly production plants. The researcher finds that with the investment in the hanger system, the manufacture sewing productivity could increase approximately forty percent. The Hanger System not only gives the improvement of sewing productivity, reduces the wastes of inefficient practices (or reduces the production cost), but also improves the quality of products. The finding of this research may provide some data for Taiwan's textile and apparel industry as a reference for making the Hanger System investment decision.
With the case study of three apparel manufacturer's sewing assembly plants: (1) Kao Sha Textile Corporation, Ltd., Apparel Division, (2) Far Eastern Textile Corporation, Ltd., Pan-chiao Factory, and (3) Bun-Tai Enterprise Corporation, Ltd., which are currently using the Hanger System. The Interview Questionnaire Guides were conducted with these three plants' staffs, and analyzed. This results reveal that the Hanger System has been used in either Europe or U.S.A. for almost two decades, and the application of the system are widely in all types of apparel sewing plant. However, the application of the system in Taiwan's textile industry has been booming for only about five years. In the past, Taiwan apparel manufacturers made big investments in sewing machinery, mainly including: the improvement in sewing speed and the development of sewing supplemental equipment. The apparel manufacturers shall focus on the investments for reducing the production cost, improving the products quality and especially increasing the assembly plant's productivity.
