<p>21 February 2014
What is a Disrupt-a-thon?
• Extended 2 week hack-a-thon
• Exposure to key industry challenges
• Access to industry mentors
• No limit on solution space
• Winners with game-changing ideas
enter the seed accelerator
Overview
Who can participate?
• Innovators across the globe
– Participate in-person or online
• Industry familiarity not a qualification
• Apply skills and entrepreneurism to
apparel challenges
Overview
A Few Tips
• Build a team with diverse skills/backgrounds
• Throw away assumptions. Observe, engage,
and immerse yourself in the problem
• Beginner‘s mindset: a ―new set of eyes‖
• Question everything
• Reframe and define the problem
• Brainstorm without a filter
Overview
Increase Operator
Productivity
Big Picture
• Line balancing at start of shift contributes to
a sizable loss in productive hours due to the
delay in gathering absentee data
• Find a solution to obtain absenteeism
information in advance to the start of the
shift and improve productivity by 50% in the
first hour
Challenge - 01
How the associates travel to work
Challenge - 01
Zone C
Zone B
Zone A
Productivity Loss in the first hour
Date
Productive Hours
Efficiency
Peak hour
1st hour
Peak hour
1st hour
1-Nov
30
19
37%
22%
2-Nov
38
28
43%
30%
3-Nov
43
23
45%
26%
4-Nov
17
13
14%
10%
5-Nov
53
29
47%
25%
6-Nov
45
36
42%
33%
7-Nov
60
28
47%
36%
8-Nov
24
16
66%
38%
9-Nov
38
27
44%
31%
10-Nov
43
27
41%
29%
12-Nov
36
20
35%
15%
14-Nov
16
0
32%
0%
15-Nov
44
2
19%
1%
Challenge - 01
Challenge and Key Constraints
• Challenge
– Reduce or eliminate efficiency loss by delays in line-balance
activities in the first production hour
• Key Constraints
– Solutions such as a tag used for associate tracking must be
very low in cost and robust (44,000 associates)
– Solution must be simple and not require any major change in
employee behavior
– GPS and real-time vehicle based tracking reading devices
need to be flexible a