Linking
Providing Mills with Critical Skills
Delivering value, quality and scalability, with a demonstrated history in establishing highly skilled manufacturing solutions.
Recommended requirements for LLUK on-site training
Equipment
1 x 15gg Complett Linker
1 x 21gg Complett Linker
2 x 2/28s yarn cones (one set of x 2 per machine)
Selection of knitted tapes (used as waste for start and end of garment)
Tools that may be useful such as latch hook
Variety of colours of 2/28 yarns
Support
1 x On-site trainer from S&C to be on-site at LLUK for 5 working days.
Access for LLUK to send people up to S&C for skills training and refreshers.
Communication access to a trained Linker at S&C for queries and image / video examples.
Knitted Garments
Variety of colours of one style of garment for 21gg, to include front, back and sleeves.
10x garments in variety of colours of one style garment for 15gg, to include front back and sleeves
Knitted panels / swatches - 15gg which contains a row of contrast yarn on the row of loose stitches (roughly 3cm from top (see image). This is to assist the Linker to understand stitch for point in a straight line.
Knitted panels / swatches 21gg with row of contrast yarn on loose stitches.
Implementation time frame:
Immediate availability . This skill set is made up of permanent employees of LLUK and will scale as we continue to drive this service offering.
Understanding our costings.
Standard Manufacturing Costing Example
1A. Overheads, Building, power, non-productive labour etc
Separate cost £7.50 per unit.
1B. Internal Manufacturing costs = Materials, consumables, productive labour - 1 unit = eg £18.00 - Produce to stock. Operations meet this Internal Cost = Happy
Sale of one unit = 1B (£18.00) + percentage of 1A (£7.50) = Full cost recovery at Point of sale £25.50 plus margin application.
Standard Service Company Costing
1A. Overheads, Building, power, non-productive labour etc, £7.50 per unit + Internal Manufacturing costs = Materials, consumables, productive labour - 1 unit = eg £18.00 + percentage of Overhead costs =
Total for 1 unit = 1A £25.50 + Margin application.
Only able to sell service as a whole as we cant hold “Stock” therefore all costs need to be recovered at sale of service, giving the appearance of higher prices as no internal cost are quoted.
LLUK is a Service Company and cost using this model.
Cost Proposal for Training
Complete cost of £26.25 per person per hour invoiced weekly. Payment terms to be discussed and agreed.
Our proposal is based on 4 Linkers across a 3 month term with agreed milestone review points every 2 weeks. To maximise success, 2 of the initial 4 deployed will be dedicated Linking Trainers.
In partnership with you, LLUK will provide weekly summary updates on progress, challenges and improvements for discussion.
Month 1
To be explorative to assess basic competency across selected people.
Month 2
To implement structured training
Month 3
To continue structured training with review in final week to discuss next steps if positive progress is being achieved.
Proposed Commercial Structure
Planned Outcome:
4 Linkers that will positively impact production numbers to fulfil client requirements.
In parallel to above, we will have additional skills to support should demand increase during initial period.
Weekly progress reports and full transparency to ensure we meet and exceed the demands set.
Training manual and implementation guide will be shared.
Associated costs to date (LLUK)
