In a global market which insists on ever changing styles, short production runs, on-time delivery and low margins, today’s garment manufacturers need to be highly competitive.

GSD is a Time – Cost benchmarking, Productivity Improvement and Social Compliance solution based on a scientific and ethical method analysis technique.

GSD accurately and consistently predicts benchmarks and communicates time and cost prior to and/or during the price negotiation process thereby safeguarding the profitability of the business – in short, GSD facilitates “fact-based negotiation”.

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GSD Overview

Implementation & Training

Enterprise Software

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Concept

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GSD is a "Predetermined Time System" (PTS).

As humans we all perform basic movements of obtaining things and disposing of them, within GSD referred to as "Gets" and "Puts".

In the 1940's detailed research was undertaken on what kind of Gets and Puts are needed to complete certain tasks. Some Gets are easier than others (imagine picking up a coffee cup compared to picking up one button from a number of buttons within a box.) The same with Puts; place a coffee cup down or put the button into the jaws of a buttoning machine. Each Get & Put was classified and recorded using old fashioned "cine film", with the cine camera running at 16 frames per second. This was repeated 1,000's of times to establish the statistical average number of frames, and therefor time, for each class of Get & Put.

The problem with these early systems was that they took a long time to build usable data, based on the difficulty & distance of each Get or Put.

In 1976 GSD investigated and focussed on the "sewn products industry" (includes; shoes, apparel, luggage, furniture, bedding etc.) and we used the statistically accurate Get & Put data to compile larger data blocks that were relevant to handling fabric, so the analysis of the movements is much quicker and the chance of making the wrong choice is eliminated; making GSD fast, consistent and accurate to use.

The global average times have been established from over 70 years of research and incorporated within GSD through the use of MTM Core Data to construct higher level GSD data blocks or “codes” with associated time values. All the user then needs to do is to create GSD based data relevant to the methods they use today, depending upon your products, your machinery, your workplace layouts and the production flow system (e.g. conventional bundle or rail system?).

The GSD concept is the definition of working methods, using statistically proven times to quantify Standard Time.

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