Agreement with the Textiles Human Resources Council of Canada. Harvard Business School Publishing : Online Courses

Werner International is proud to announce a long term agreement with the Canadian Textiles Human Resources Council. The agreement includes the use of the eVolution™ training system developed by the council and used in many countries.

Werner International has made a quantum leap in training recently by using the eVolution™ system. The software, available on the Internet and on CD, perfectly supports the renowned and widely used Werner AMPS® training system.

The system was developed by the Canadian Textiles Human Resources Council and funded by the Canadian government. Various authorities were involved in developing the training tool such as NCSU (North Carolina State Universities), Leeds University (UK), technical colleges in the USA and Canada and finally, senior manufacturing experts were called to review the content. 

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Pakistan Benchmarking Study

Werner has carried out two major benchmarking studies so far this year on behalf of the Ministry of Textile Industry in Pakistan. The studies concentrated on manufacturing processes, including: Preparation, Weaving, Dyeing and Finishing in both the towel and Denim Industries.

The surveys were done at a number of representative companies in both sectors at plants based in Lahore and Karachi and were done in response to a request from the Ministry of Textiles in order to contribute and support the competitiveness of its textile and garment industry in what is now a globalized marketplace. Within this context, the benchmark initiatives objective is twofold. On the one side, assess and evaluate the level of internal competitiveness of participating companies through the execution of a deep and detailed analysis and auditing. On the other side, provide companies with a benchmarking comparison of their performance to those achieved by best similar competitors all over the world and therefore specifically outline performance gaps and improvement potentials.

On completion of the studies, individual reports were presented to each participating company with a final combined sectorial report presented to a joint meeting of senior executives of the companies concerned and to the Minister of Textiles in Islamabad.
Werner is extremely grateful to all those that participated in this exercise, for the manner in which they cooperated fully with our consultants during the course of the studies at the manufacturing units.

This exercise is part of an ongoing project in which Werner was asked to look at a number of sectors that are of concern to the Ministry including: Ginning, Yarn Processing, Home Furnishings, Garment manufacture, Knitting and others.

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News from India

Himatsingka Linens, part of Himatsingka Seide, has successfully implemented the Werner AMPS training system. The new weaving installations include 320 Picanol looms producing bed sheeting products. The investment represents the biggest Jacquard wide fabric installation in India with 48 wide width looms.

The finishing operations have a daily capacity of 60,000 meters and the sewing department is able to deliver 10,000 finished sets.

Mr. Alain Mathieu, Executive Vice President of Werner recently visited the installations to deliver a final copy of the training manual and was impressed: "Himatsingka Linens has certainly the potential to become one of the best sheeting company in the world. Testing, manufacturing and training facilities are simply world class".

Mr. A.V. Nair, Vice President (Operations) of Himatsingka Linens, mentioned: "We are very pleased with the contribution of Werner International and the AMPS training system is definitely an effective training method. We continue to strictly adhere to the system to accelerate the development of competent and productive operators in weaving."

Even if Himatsingka training organization is now self-sufficient, a Werner consultant is maintaining regular contact. "I like to have a Werner consultant here from time to time. His efforts and dedication are well appreciated and he keeps our people on the edge" Mr. Nair said.

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Turquality® Success : Derri Design

Turquality®, a brand supporting program, nowadays well known all over the world, is a unique example of how a government can promote the international exposure of a number of domestic brands by financially supporting the best and most promising Turkish enterprises in a number of industrial sectors (textile, construction, FMCG, furniture, etc.), provided that they are able to prove a capability and a potential to become international brands.

Werner International has been very actively involved in Turquality® project since the very beginning, when the program was only consisted in the Turquality® logo and by a first group of apparel (fashion) companies, successful on the domestic market. Along the years from that starting point Werner has provided its support in setting the strategy of the program on one side while developing a system and criteria for assessing and benchmarking applicant companies. We have also pointed out various areas of improvement for many of these companies and implemented several support projects, either in the technical or the marketing and strategy field.

Today Werner is still involved in a number of interesting consultancy projects with most of these companies.

One of the most successful examples of such fruitful collaborations is the one in association with DSD, for their Derri Design brand.

Werner International has been assisting DSD, initially by providing strategic coaching to the Company for the effective positioning of their brand Derri, then in the refinement of the Derri Design brand concept, meant to be a core value brand concept for progressive international repositioning.

Werner International has supported the Company management in the fine positioning of the brand and throughout all the necessary implementation steps, such as brand concept development and design, merchandising planning, collection development, store / corner concept development, etc.

Werner International has brought in a multidisciplinary team of experts, including consultants with strong and consolidated competences in fashion branding, retailing, concept design, as well as designers for collection development, store concept development, in-store material design (displays, hangers, boxes, labels, ribbons, etc.), and communication material (catalogues, video, flyers, etc.).

In January 2008, Werner International introduced DSD to a well known American representative. Starting from the SS09 season Derri Design collection, will therefore be presented to leading US retail accounts from a nice New York downtown showroom.

Werner International and DSD have been collaborating for over a year now and through the development of two full collections, FW08 and SS09. The success of this cooperation is also the result of the hospitable and receptive environment created in the Company by its Board members and their management collaborators.

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