Methods Workshop (Pty) Ltd

A Brief company profile

A Consultancy company concentrating only in the Garment Industry.

We are aSouth Africa based company operational since 1981 .Our Company has offices in Durban, Cape Town, Colombo Sri Lanka, and now in Delhi. Our aim is to provide specific industry-related production consultancy services, training and high-technology solutions. 

The Consultancy Services and training programmes cover all areas of the factory from Raw Materials through to Dispatch.

Methods Workshop's in house developed computer software, well known throughout Southern Africa, with a wide local user base, covers all aspects of production. Each program has been developed to run as a “Stand Alone” module, and all support Multi-User functionality. As you purchase additional modules they are automatically integrated, so you can build a complete computer system to manage your manufacturing arm.

The whole series of programs is called Pro-Suite and is made up of the following modules;

Pro-SMV:

Pro- SMV will provide the company with the basis to accurately establish Standard Minute Values for sewing room operations; it concentrates on the method improvement and accuracy of time standards.

Pro-Man:

Bar-coded bundle tickets and Operator Management coupled with total Work In Progress tracking, and Skills Management.

Pro-Plan:

Production Planning, An essential system, designed to help to achieve customer satisfaction by ensuring that delivery dates are achieved.

Pro-Cut:

Fabric represents 60-70% of product cost. This system monitors the use of every inch issued to the cutting room, and will save anything up to 4% of your fabric usage.

Pro-Cut SMV:

This programme enables the company to calculate the Standard Minute Value for cutting room operations, and monitor efficiency and WIP for the cutting room.

Pro-Stock:

Total Fabric & Trims Stock Control, Coupled with Costing and Materials Requirement planning, tying up to a final “Cost Back” reporting exactly what you achieved against your initial costing. 

Pro-Balance: 

This will give you an initial “Line Balance” using the skills and efficiency of the operators on the section chosen to make the order and will show the work distribution whilst the order is on the line, indicating work pile-ups and potential solutions.

Pro-Asset:

Monitors all assets in the company, shows all work undertaken on each piece of equipment, holds stock of spares and monitors the activities of the maintenance staff

System Training:

We install and train these systems to ensure your total satisfaction. Your IT department are fully trained to give on-site support to all users and systems.

Training Courses offered.

                        We offer a wide range of Industry specific Training courses:

Total Quality Management

Production Management

Supervisors

Quality Controllers

Work-study

Communication

Motivation

We are Government accredited trainers in South Africa . Our courses are based from our experience within the production side of the industry they have been built around our practical experience.

Consultancy Services offered.

We also study the organization from a business point of view and help to unlocking the true potential and achievable profitability. This involves examining all aspects of the business to establish areas of weakness, and is coupled to a report, which will contain recommendations and solutions and will form the basis of a discussion with Management and the formulation of a plan of action. We are able to offer ‘Turn-Key’ solutions, layouts, equipment requirements and assist with the staffing requirements for the various departments required.

We have clients in India / Sri Lanka / South Africa / Cambodia / Botswana / Lesotho

Gokaldas Exports (Bangalore), we have installed systems in four factories of group in the past 10 months. We have changed their system of production and designed furniture to help to make the factories more productive, giving the operators more space to work and allowing them to adopt the methods we have taught their Industrial engineering department to embrace.

We have completed the installation of systems in Modelama and Orient Fashions in the Delhi area.

We have had tremendous success with our installations in this country and are concentrating our future expansion in the Indian market since it is growing so quickly.

A Few of our clients in South Africa

Alpex, Bakbor, Brenton Clothing, Riviera Fashions, Cambridge, Cape Underwear

Casual Clothing, China Garments, Durban Clothing Elzet, H D Lee, John peter, Leisure Knit, Marburg manufacturing Midlands Trim (BMW SA), SA Clothing Menswear, SA Clothing Ladies wear, Snugglers, Walnut clothing

Our Clients in Sri Lanka:

Hemas (2 Factories), Timex Jaqalanka (3 Factories), Continental, Koggala Garments and

Maliban (2 Factories)

We are not ‘Quick Fix’ but are more interested in long and mutually beneficial relationships with our clients, our experience and expertise is there to help you to become much more productive and therefore much more profitable.

Please visit our website www.methods.co.za for further information