Case study
YoungOne Group — Hanger System Deployment
How YoungOne Group rebalanced its outdoor and down apparel lines with a CleverMax hanger system, MES integration, and station-level data.
Customer snapshot
- Location
- China
- Founded
- 1974
- Scale
- Multi-line outdoor & down apparel manufacturer
- Products
- Hanger system + station controls + MES connector
Challenge
YoungOne Group runs multiple parallel apparel lines for down jackets and outdoor clothing. The legacy bundle-based workflow could not absorb the SKU-mix swings between seasonal collections, and line leads spent hours every shift hand-rebalancing operators across stations.
Throughput visibility was thin. By the time a bottleneck showed up on the daily report, it had already cost a full shift. The plant needed an overhead routing layer that could move garments between stations on demand and feed station-level data into the existing MES.
Our solution
CleverMax engineered a full-length hanger system overhead loop, RFID-tagged each carrier, and connected workstation terminals at every operator. Bundle launch is driven from cut-plan upload; the hanger system then routes work to whichever station has capacity, and re-routes around an absent operator without stopping the line.
Outcome
Three production cycles after go-live, the team measured the following against a matched control line.
+32%
Daily throughput per line
-50%
Time spent on line balancing
-25%
Work-in-progress on the floor
“The hanger system and MES connection improved line visibility and helped our team raise throughput across daily production.”
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