My position managing a garment factory has easily been my most stressful job to date. Manufacturing is its own beast, plagued with deadlines, rush orders, and waitlists. Over the past few weeks in particular I’ve come to the realization that the general public considers a factory to be a massive tailor shop—and this couldn’t be further from the truth.
For the sake of sensitization I am compelled to write about the manufacturing process specifically. As is illustrated below, the production process is lengthy. This doesn’t include sourcing of materials or creation of a technical package.
Steps 1 through 13 generally take thirty (30) days minimum, once the factory has the pattern on hand, or a similar pattern that can be easily modified, and materials are already in stock.
