NEO Production Trip To Kelantan

• Visiting Puspamara Sdn Bhd• Visiting Ayu Batik Creations

Group Members.

MUHAMAD IQBAL BIN ZAMRI (2011190537)

NORUL FARAH FADHILAH BINTI ISHAMUDDIN (2011300795)

MUHAMMAD AISAMUDDIN BIN JULAIHI (2011128935)

Visiting Puspamara Sdn Bhd.

INTRODUCTION

 Puspamara Sdn Bhd is a company mass garment production business. The company operates in Malaysia. Its registered address is No. 682, Jln Padang Tembak, 16100 Pengkalan Chepa, Kelantan. This company produce a large quantity of army suits, police uniforms, fire fighter attire and lots more. This company not only produce garments, but also making research and development for their clients. They have about 80 workers and they operates only one shift a day.

COMPANY’S BACKGROUND

Puspamara Sendirian Berhad was established in 1980 as a garment manufacturer of various types of apparels and uniforms for Army, Police, Customs and Fire Brigade. Besides the contract markets, Puspamara also involves in commercial and export markets, including designing and developing special products.

As a leading company in uniform manufacturing industry, Puspamara has done a lot of research on products development to meet customers' requirement and satisfaction. Now, we are diversifying and venturing into Parachute manufacturing for Asia and Pacific Region.

COMPANY’S ORGANIZATION CHART

Puspamara Sdn Bhd is sub company from Nadicorp Sdn Bhd.

Basically, Puspamara Sdn Bhd has 3 department which is Sales & Logistic, Production, and Quality control department.

All this department supervised by one person and managed by a manager.

DESIGN PROCESS

TECHNICAL PROCESS: the technical process is placed on one softboard so all workers easily refer to it in the process of producing prototype and garment. Here,all the info about fabrics

used, the pattern, zippers and more are mentioned.

SEWING LINE

GARMENT SAMPLING: after the technical process, they produce a prototype before presented to their costumer for next step for production.

PRODUCTION PROCESS First thing in

production process is technical and pattern making.

All technical and pattern making are computerized.

In cutting process, first, they lay 50 to 100 piece of fabrics using fabric lay machine.

Then, the pattern lay on the fabric and being stapled together so the pattern paper wont move.

Next, the fabric is cut according to the line on pattern paper.

•After the fabric are cut, they are sent to sewing department.•In this department, the fabric is sewn according to the sewing line.

• after the garment being sewn, they send to quality control depatrment.•Here, the garment being inspected.

•After garment being inspected, they being packed in boxes and ready to transported to costumer.

Visiting Ayu Batik Creations

INTRODUCTION

Ayu Fashion is a workshop in Batik Painting. The company operates in Malaysia. Its registered address is Bengkel Batik Ayu Fashion, Lot 1139, Kg Talak, Chabang Empat, 16200 Tumpat, Kelantan. Ayu Batik produce high quality of batik –fabric and design. They only produce high quality hand-made batik, which means there is no the same batik.

COMPANY’S BACKGROUND

This workshop was established in 1972 and the founder is Mahadi Abd Rahman. This workshop is open from a small scale until be a great workshop and known. The workshop are run by the Mahadi Abd Rahman family members. They have about ten loyal workers. They also have a store run by their family members to sell their beautiful product. Ayu Batik also won few competion in national stage.

DESIGN PROCESS

BLOCK PRINT TECHNIQUE

As interviewed, this worker tells us that his work is the first thing to do in batik making. He prints the motive on white cloth using block or “sarang” that dipped in the hot wax.

This is hot liquid wax which used as ink in print making and motive drawing process. This ink also acts as border in colouring process.

•BATIK MOTIVE DRAWING•This worker draws the motives on plain white cloth before colouring it. This process called canting and the ink used in this process is hot wax. This skillfull workers tells us thats he work as batik artist for almost 15 years.

After print or drawing the motives, the second process is colouring the motives and the background. This aunty as interviewed, can colour up to 25 pieces of batik a day. She already work for Ayu Batik for 6 years.

To preserve the colour, first the batik clocth must soaked in sodium silicate concentration and left hanging under the roof for 8 hours.

After the 8 hours of hanging, the cloth then is soaked in hot water to remove wax and excessive sodium silicate.

The last process in batik making is hanging the garment and left it to dry.

Ayu Batik has set up thier own store near to their workshop. The store sells variety type of batik and batik oriented products.

This is few product from ayu batik creations

CONCLUSION

In conclusion, there are so many things that we learn on our trip to this two factory. At Puspamara, we learn about garment making process-design,fabric, technical drawing, pattern making, sampling, and mass production cutting and sewing. At Ayu Batik we learn about the process of motive making and fabric colouring. This trip change the way we look to the industy of fashion. We watch and feels process that starts form simple sketches till to the finishing of the garment. It is not easy as we imagine before, yet more intresting than we can imagine before. The things that we learn on this trip not only to finish this report and get marks but also can be applied in our design and pattern making process.