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Assembly Line Manufacturing Process

According to our textbook, an assembly line is where an item is produced over a sequence of workstations. Assembly lines are designed to achieve a specific production rate. The path for each is generally a straight line.

Article: Carhartt Introduces Rugged Professional Series

Carhartt is expanding their collection to feature workwear items for the customers in search of uniform needs of businesses. Carhartt Company Gear is introducing a new line called Rugged Professional Series. This line will include nine styles and feature “Rugged Flex and Stain Breaker technologies.” The new collection is designed to allow customers to maximize performance of their job with innovative workwear solutions for teams of any size and for every day challenges one may face day in and day out. Carhartt designs all completed in Dearborn, Michigan, which is a few miles from their headquarters. Carhartt is one company still assembling more that 80 million garments in the past 15 years that are made in USA. Carhartt employees over 2,000 American employees and over 1,000 United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW) union members. All Carhartt apparel is assembled in four factories in Kentucky and Tennessee.

Analysis

There are fewer and fewer items that can be purchased that were truly made in USA nowadays. Carhartt has expanded their apparel and they still maintain their “Made in the USA” honestly. Carhartt has been able to increase their customer base and increase the capabilities of their assembly line manufacturing processes.

 

References:

Carhartt Introduces Rugged Professional Series. (2019, November 5). Retrieved from https://www.manufacturing.net/home/mnet-product-categories/impo/product/21095948/carhartt-carhartt-introduces-rugged-professional-series (Links to an external site.) .

Carhartt Made in the USA. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.carhartt.com/content/content-musa?icid=carharttproducts-content-musa-content-201709-allvisitors-hh_MUSA_Video_0317_bg (Links to an external site.) .

Jacobs, F. & Chase, R. (2020). Operations and Supply Chain Management: The Core. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill Education.