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In the popular clothing market, the garment color is often an important factor in the customer’s determination of purchase. In the fast-changing fashion market, uncertain demand, low predictability and other factors may cause panic buying. Hence, the postponement of clothing dyeing in supply chain management is an important production method for success in the modern clothing fashion market. This study used simulation software to build two virtual clothing supply chain models of cloth dyeing and postponement of clothing dyeing of clothing industry. Moreover, it imported the data of actual factories into the two models for simulation; different situations of output, productivity and delivery date are simulated in multi-color clothing throughput using the same equipment. The postponement of clothing dyeing is applicable to clothing products with changing colors and with slight change in clothing style, whereas the cloth dyeing is applicable to clothing products with uncertain clothing style and slight change in color. The postponement of clothing dyeing is better than the cloth dyeing production mode in the situation of diversified colors and inaccurate forecasting of production. In terms of multi-color inventory carrying cost, the production inventory and carrying cost of postponement of clothing dyeing are lower than cloth dyeing. Therefore, for the changing market, the postponement of clothing dyeing is characterized by low inventory, low carrying cost and low risk. This study provides the forecast management situation for the clothing industries to use capable production modes for clothing manufacturing supply chain.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to build and provide a step-by-step methodology to develop a speed-to-market (STM) process model for a fashion garment that can quickly respond to the marketing situation and shorten the cycle time from receiving orders to deliver the finished product. The improved STM process model to contrast the “before” and “after” scenarios in order to induce potential benefits such as reducing production lead-time and keeping low inventory. Design/methodology/approach – First, collected garment business management systems and garment manufacture operational process. Second, according to the point-line-plane-volume work improvement to list the garment industry up and down stream improvement projects and to reduce the supply chain lead-time. Third, establish the STM model and use information technology to redesign the garment industry supply chain process. Fourth, amend the STM model process. Fifth, compare the supply chain lead-time of finished STM process and normal process. Findings – After the garment industry implements STM and supply chain re-engineering, the clothing design to sale process can be simplified and reduced time to market. The garment order to buyer lead-time is shortened from 104 to 42 days totally. Practical implications – This research is a practical business re-engineering process and work improvement. The improvement STM model can half the cycle time from receiving orders to deliver the finished garment product. Originality/value – This paper provides a process with a step-by-step methodology to develop a successful speed-to-market model for the fashion garment industry and it is able to serve as a reference model for other industrial supply chain management.

Change control is considered as the prime power and obstruction of growth. During product research and development, it is di±cult to avoid various engineering changes (ECs). Appropriate control of ECs can improve the design and quality of products. This study examines aerospace products from development to production over 17 years including 1180 cases of EC. We use statistical methods to analyze the central and dispersion tendency of the products research and development and then test it to¯nd which key capability factors are important to EC. Some required ECs for a typical aerospace product development are investigated. In this study, key factors for aerospace products are classi¯ed into nine categories: Structure, subsystem, electrics, control, electronics, interface, manufacture, engine and others. The results show that the life cycle of electronic parts and time to implement ECs is four to seven years and the electronics manufacturer must improve risk management in product research and development stages to reduce engineering changes e®ectively. Further, a regression model is developed to recompose integrated planning for controlling the cost and scheduling. Thus, the communication of various designs and the control of ECs can be improved in the initial stages of product research and development.

We design a program for trajectory recognition and tracking processing on a moving limb, and use this program for the examining of sports fitness to construct an automatic examining system. The quantity for the specific movements will be measured and counted by this program running on the personal computer to substitute for traditional method to eliminate the error due to subjective evaluation. This automatic examining system can reduce the error rates as well as decrease the use of manpower, and to reduce the overall examining time effectively. So, doing the examination of sports fitness by this system in the campus is so easy, convenient, and practical, and it is not rigidly suffer from the manpower issue, the venue and the inconsistent action.It seems from the experimental results, this proposed method can indeed achieve the goal of automatic examining and will be focused on the promotion of the design and application of the overall system.