NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF FASHION TECHNOLOGY

BFT Apparel Internship ( 14 weeks)

Perquisite: Apparel Production Planning and Control, Industry Internship
Objectives
The objectives of internship is firstly to gain practical exposure and secondly
application of knowledge on real life projects and/or assignments.
This industry internship is aimed towards blending the class room principles with
industry application. This internship also helps students to learn and improve their
interpersonal communication skills with colleagues, peer group and workers.
What are the students supposed to do?
The students are supposed to study manufacturing process thoroughly, observe and
execute (with able guidance from department in charge) different department
functions and executes small projects/assignments as per organizational need. They
are expected to document the different department functions & working
procedures, analyze them thoroughly and write down probable suggestions. They
must gain hands on experience on various manufacturing processes like
cutting, sewing, finishing, checking, data generation, reporting, and use
of IT tools in various stages of garment manufacturing. Internees also
must work on a mutually identified (with the organization) topic/area/brief
as project and/or assignment.
The internees are expected to
[1] Adhere to the schedule as advised by the institute.
[2] Perform duties as assigned by the organization in charge from time to time.
[3] Concentrate on other manufacturing activities (e.g. embroidery, washing etc.) as
may be applicable to the specific organization they are undergoing internship. The
internee may like to collect fabric swatches, trims, formats, visuals etc. for
documentation of report.
The Internship report prepared by student will be kept confidential for
academic and research purpose and will not be displayed in library.
The internees must complete following studies during the course of
internship.
1. Conduct capacity study for spreading & cutting activities, the machines available
in the factory from the cutting room to the finishing room and fill up necessary
format. Capacity study should be done for minimum 2 styles / 2 fabrics per internee.
2. Operation breakdown and Time & Motion study for sewing operations for at least
one complete style per internee, [applicable for factories working on assembly line
sewing system]
3. Work Sampling Study
4. Understanding and documenting the factory layout
5. Understanding & documenting of Material flow from stores to warehouse
6. Understanding & documenting Management Information System (MIS) of the
organization
7. Understanding material flow within a dept. or between different departments
8. Documenting the cost benefit analysis of Apparel CAD system being used by the
organization
9. Conducting an analysis of software features (any module of specialized software
like ERP or PDM/PLM or production scheduling etc.) vis a vis organizational
requirement
10. Understanding the building shed
Deliverables

While the students learn by doing themselves they contribute in organizational goal
by studying, analyzing and documenting various facts and figures which can be
used as base document by an organization for various exploratory projects as well
as day to day organizational activities like capacity planning, bottleneck
management, production scheduling, software requirement analysis etc. The
internship document prepared by the student gives any organization a different
perspective from a noninstitutionalized person.