FOOTWEAR INDUSTRY LEATHER CUTTING ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATION OF WASTAGE MINIMIZATION RESEARCH INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUES

Abstract

Leather from different parts of the animal, its characteristics, and this has to be taken into account when using leather in several products. The main parts of the hide and skin such as the shoulder, butt, belly, and axillae are different properties in terms of strength, flexibility, and durability (Mesa et al., 2019). They consumed for many types of footwear such as shoes, boots, sandals, slippers, etc. Footwear is divided into many categories such as athletic shoes also known as sneakers, galoshes, high heels, and many others. The leather clicking operation is very important for making shoe uppers mostly cow leather. Buff, goat skins are used for upper making. This operation is required a high level of skill efficiency (Elamvazhuthi et al., 2009). Right now, African country's footwear industry is very faster developing based on leather sources This research already focused on the leather cutting section layout design, operation methods, time study, standard operating procedure, assorting, grading, nesting, machine maintenance, allocation sheet Stroke report, die cabinet, daily report techniques all are implemented and recommended to the African middle scale footwear sectors.