Case Study
HOME EXPRESSIONS CONCEPTS INC.
* Background of the Company
HOME EXPRESSIONS CONCEPTS INC. (HOMEX) is a family run business owned by Ms. Filipinas Katly-Torres. In the year of 1998 she formed a corporation which involved trading of textile yarn and cotton wastes named Home Expressions International. The business went into recycling of cotton into stuffing materials for pillows, and mattresses, among others, and in 2006 Home Expressions Concepts, Inc. was incorporated. It was developed a brand name called “Sleepworth” and generally uses indigenous recycled cotton materials out of the well-known local variety called “Kapok” as stuffing for its well-know mattress brand.
* Layout Strategy
Home Expressions Inc. recycles cotton to stuff materials like pillows and mattresses. The operation is mainly done by manpower and a little help from the machine through different processes like cutting, sewing, stuffing, closing and finishing. Each step cannot jump into another until the first one is done to ensure its best quality.
The goal of our group is to identify the accurate number of workers needed to operate or to produce the required demand of a store. Having the knowledge and awareness of these tools helps the company to manage their workers properly, to ensure how many items will be produced per day and to be aware on how many items will be the excess per production.
This Home Expressions’ Data Summary illustrates how each operation is done through time, number of hours and demands per day specifically on pillows. Operation (per unit) | Time (seconds) | Workday (hours) | Demand (units/day) | | | | | Cutting | 40 | 8 | 500 | Sewing | 45 | | | Staffing | 40 | | | Closing | 45 | | | Finishing | 50 | | |
The task time of Home Expressions is 57.60 seconds per unit. Time (unit) | Workday | Demand (units/day) | Takt Time (seconds) | | | | | Hours | 8 | 500 | 57.60 | Minutes | 480 | | | Seconds | 28,800 | | |
* Background of the Company
HOME EXPRESSIONS CONCEPTS INC. (HOMEX) is a family run business owned by Ms. Filipinas Katly-Torres. In the year of 1998 she formed a corporation which involved trading of textile yarn and cotton wastes named Home Expressions International. The business went into recycling of cotton into stuffing materials for pillows, and mattresses, among others, and in 2006 Home Expressions Concepts, Inc. was incorporated. It was developed a brand name called “Sleepworth” and generally uses indigenous recycled cotton materials out of the well-known local variety called “Kapok” as stuffing for its well-know mattress brand.
* Layout Strategy
Home Expressions Inc. recycles cotton to stuff materials like pillows and mattresses. The operation is mainly done by manpower and a little help from the machine through different processes like cutting, sewing, stuffing, closing and finishing. Each step cannot jump into another until the first one is done to ensure its best quality.
The goal of our group is to identify the accurate number of workers needed to operate or to produce the required demand of a store. Having the knowledge and awareness of these tools helps the company to manage their workers properly, to ensure how many items will be produced per day and to be aware on how many items will be the excess per production.
This Home Expressions’ Data Summary illustrates how each operation is done through time, number of hours and demands per day specifically on pillows. Operation (per unit) | Time (seconds) | Workday (hours) | Demand (units/day) | | | | | Cutting | 40 | 8 | 500 | Sewing | 45 | | | Staffing | 40 | | | Closing | 45 | | | Finishing | 50 | | |
The task time of Home Expressions is 57.60 seconds per unit. Time (unit) | Workday | Demand (units/day) | Takt Time (seconds) | | | | | Hours | 8 | 500 | 57.60 | Minutes | 480 | | | Seconds | 28,800 | | |