Calculating Thread Consumption of a garment is one of the common processes in garment manufacturing. It was never an easy task to find an average thread requirement for a style in bulk production. First reason, this is a time-consuming process. Secondly, though factories use the scientific method for calculating thread average, most of the time factories source extra threads for production or factories found a lot of leftover threads after style completion.
However, you need to follow the process every day. When you get a new style, extra time needed to understand the operations (construction details). One other important point I like to mention that till date providing thread average is the job of a production guy or an Industrial Engineers.
Thread manufacturing company American & Efird (A&E) has simplified thread average calculation process by introducing ANECALC. Now anybody, who knows about garment operations, machine types to be used to make the garment in each operation, can calculate the average threads requirement for the garment by using ANECALC.
ANECALC is an MS Excel based thread average calculation sheet. A&E made Thread Consumption Sheet for most of the apparel products (See below). List of operations of the those products are already written in the calculation sheet. Formula are added into the sheet. Most of the required information are pre-filled. You just need to modify values where needed. If required you can add or discard operations on the sheet. Instruction of using the ANECALC sheet (New Help Guide) is there in a separate worksheet of the same file.
Thread consumption sheet for following products are available in A&E's site.
Url: http://www.amefird.com/technical-tools/thread-consumption/anecalc/
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