Guidelines for Apparel Internship :

Perquisite: APPC, Industry Internship

Objectives

The objectives of internship is firstly to gain practical exposure and secondly application of knowledge on
real life projects and/or assignments.

This industry internship is aimed towards blending the class room principles with industry application.
This internship also helps students to learn and improve their interpersonal communication skills with
colleagues, peer group and workers.

What are the students supposed to do?

The students are supposed to study manufacturing process thoroughly, observe and execute (with able
guidance from department in charge) different department functions and executes small
projects/assignments as per organizational need. They are expected to document the different
department functions & working procedures, analyse them thoroughly and write down probable
suggestions. They must gain hands on experience on various manufacturing processes like cutting,
sewing, finishing, checking, data generation, reporting, and use of IT tools in various stages of
garment manufacturing. Internees also must work on a mutually identified (with the organization)
topic/area/brief as project and/or assignment.

The internees are expected to [1] adhere to the schedule as advised by the institute. [2] perform duties
as assigned by the organization in charge from time to time. [3] concentrate on other manufacturing
activities (e.g. embroidery, washing etc.) as may be applicable to the specific organization they are under
going internship. The internee may like to collect fabric swatches, trims, formats, visuals etc. for
documentation of report. The Internship report prepared by student will be kept confidential for
academic and research purpose and will not be displayed in library.

The internees must complete following studies during the course of internship.

1. Conduct capacity study for spreading & cutting activities, the machines available in the factory
from the cutting room to the finishing room and fill up necessary format. Capacity study should
be done for minimum 2 styles / 2 fabrics per internee.
2. Operation breakdown and Time & Motion study for sewing operations for at least one complete
style per internee, [applicable for factories working on assembly line sewing system]
3. Work Sampling Study
4. Understanding and documenting the factory layout
5. Understanding & documenting of Material flow from stores to warehouse
6. Understanding & documenting Management Information System (MIS) of the organization
7. Understanding material flow within a dept. or between different departments
8. Documenting the cost benefit analysis of Apparel CAD system being used by the organization
9. Conducting an analysis of software features (any module of specialized software like ERP or
PDM/PLM or production scheduling etc.) vis a vis organizational requirement
10. Understanding the building shed
Deliverables

While the students learn by doing themselves they contribute in organizational goal by studying,
analyzing and documenting various facts and figures which can be used as base document by an
organization for various exploratory projects as well as day to day organizational activities like capacity
planning, bottleneck management, production scheduling, software requirement analysis etc. The
internship document prepared by the student gives any organization a different perspective from a non-
institutionalised person.