Quality Control In Garments Industry

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6) QUALITY
Quality is a fitness for purpose, and the major components of quality are price, technical performance, and aesthetic appeal. It is basically totality of features and characteristics of a product or service that bears on its ability to satisfy stated or implied needs. Quality is of prime importance in any part of business. In the garments industry quality control is practiced from the initial stage i.e. sourcing raw materials to the last stage i.e. finishing of a garment. Quality assurance is the management system, which is laid down by the manufacturer, to ensure that the required specification of a product is met.

Quality control is a set of testing methods, inspection and analytical procedures which are applied to raw materials,
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Glass table is used. The fabric laid on the table and under the glass under proper lights. Then various tests such as shade matching, spots checking, side-centre-side shade check and shrinkage test.

Raw material quality: Thread Construction-count/yarn ply. Thread Color-should match with the fabric, thread Imperfections shouldn't be there i.e. no slubs, knots etc, Bobbin winding should not be too loose or tight, Needle size should not be too thick or thin with respect to fabric

Cutting quality: Marker mode should be correct as per the fabric and garment, Spreading mode should be correct as per the fabric and garment Patterns must be correctly replicated in the cutting.

Stitching Quality: patterns should not mismatch, skip stich should not happen. Skip stich happens because of a thick place in the fabric. Variable stich density should not happen while pulling back the
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Original inspection is the first inspection of a particular quantity of a product, as distinguished from the inspection of a product that has been resubmitted after prior rejection.
TQM
It is a management approach for an organization, centered on quality, based on the participation of all its members and aiming at long term success through customer satisfaction, and benefits to all members of the organization and to society. ISO 8402:1994. Pareto Analysis
It is also called as “80/20 Rule” which is the assumption or idea that 20% of causes generates 80% of results. Pareto Analysis is basically a statistical technique which is used in decision making for the selection of a limited number of tasks that in turn will produce significant overall effects.
The following graph shows Pareto analysis i.e. cause and result.

Maintaining Quality of a Garment
• A garment should be Free from defects like Stains, fabric defects, open seams, untrimmed threads, misaligned buttons and button holes, no shade difference from panel to panel
• In normal use the garment should