Diagnosis and Modeling of Productivity Improvement in Manufacturing Industries
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2010-12
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Addis Ababa University
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The intent of this empirical research is to identify the critical factors that are potentially fatal
to productivity improvement in Ethiopian textile industries and to analyze these factors. The
Ethiopia government is now adopting policy measures that support productivity of the textile
sector. But there is strong competition on the international market for textile and garment
products, which are an important part of world trade. This was the imperative stand to carry
out this study.
The aim of the research is enhancing the productivity of textile sector after analyzing the
productivity affecting factors.
These study focuses on some selected textile companies in Addis Ababa and Oromia region
which are representatives of the textile sector found in the country and based on the study
productivity affecting factors were identified. According to the respondents the major
problems are shortage of raw material, low labor productivity, absence of strong maintenance
policy, low capacity utilization etc. And based on this a productivity improvement model
which comprises technology based technique, material based technique, employee based
technique and product based technique were developed. At the end of this study conclusion
and recommendations are made on the basis of the problems faced in textile sectors.
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Manufacturing Industries, Productivity Improvement, Diagnosis, Modeling