Practical Industrial Engineering for Apparel Manufacturing

The Practitioner Behind SewEasy

Keerthi Abeywickrama is the founder and CEO of SewEasy Pvt. Ltd. — a Licensed MTM2 Practitioner and MBA in Operations Management with over 30 years of apparel industry experience. He has personally trained IE professionals across Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, India, Pakistan, Turkey, Ethiopia, and beyond.

International recognition:

• Cited in ILO publication 'Towards Better Work' (Rossi, Luinstra & Pickles, 2011) — p.124
• Cited in Fair Wear Foundation 'Using Due Diligence in Labour Costing to Meet Wage Compliance' — p.28
• Named in University of Manchester 'Capturing the Gains' Working Paper 14 (Doug Miller, 2013) as one of only three MTM consultancy firms operating globally in apparel
• Participant, OECD Forum on Due Diligence in the Garment and Footwear Sector (Feb 2021)
• Expert, Ministry of Industry Ethiopia — Transformation Triggering Facility (2016–2017)
• Consultant, Commonwealth Secretariat — Productivity & Competitiveness Improvement (2012–2013)
• International Speaker, 7th International Conference on Apparel & Home Textiles, New Delhi (2011)
• Visiting Lecturer, Brandix College of Clothing Technology (1995–2010, 15 years)
• Research Assistant, Manchester Metropolitan University — Apparel Cluster Competitiveness Analysis (2007–2010)
• SLCP Signatory · Member, The Textile Institute

Where Theory Meets the Cutting Table

SewEasy GSD isn't built in a boardroom. It is shaped on the factory floor — next to the sewing machine, alongside the work-study analyst, in the line-balancing meeting.

Our methodology is tested in real factories across South Asia, East Africa, the Middle East, and beyond — in the conditions your teams actually work in. That is what makes the SMVs we deliver defensible in front of buyers, fair to operators, and useful on Monday morning.

30+ years of practice, applied to thousands of real operations.