Quality Assurance

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Quality means customer needs is to be satisfied. Failure to maintain an adequate quality standard can therefore be unsuccessful. But maintaining an adequate standard of quality also costs effort. From the first investigation to find out what the potential customer for a new product really wants, through the processes of design, specification, controlled manufacture and sale.

 

There are a number of factors on which quality fitness of garment industry is based such as - performance, reliability, durability, visual and perceived quality of the garment. Quality needs to be defined in terms of a particular framework of cost.

In the garment industry quality control is practiced right from the initial stage of sourcing raw materials to the stage of final finished garment. For textile and apparel industry product quality is calculated in terms of quality and standard of fibres, yarns, fabric construction, colour fastness, surface designs and the final finished garment products. However quality expectations for export are related to the type of customer segments and the retail outlets.

  

 OBJECTIVES   

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 1. To maximize the production of goods within the specified tolerances correctly the first time.
2. To achieve a satisfactory design of the fabric or garment in relation to the level of choice in design, styles, colours, suitability of components and fitness of product for the market.   

     

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

REQUIREMENTS   

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 The Quality System Requirements are based on the principle of PDCA Cycle.

  

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

ESTABLISHING THE QUALITY REQUIREMENTS  

 

The first step for quality control is to understand, establish & accept the customers' quality requirements. This involves the following steps.

1. Getting customers specifications regarding the quality
2. Referring our past performance
3. Discussing with the Quality Control Department
4. Discussing with the Production Department
5. Giving the Feed Back to the customers
6. Receiving the revised quality requirements from the customers
7. Accepting the quality parameters  

   

 VARIOUS STEPS OF INSPECTION & QUALITY CONTROL   

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 The following levels are discussed at the Garment Making Department assuming that this department is receiving the ready to cut dyed & finished fabrics from the Dyeing & Finishing Department.   

 Before or Pre-production Inspection During Production Inspection 

 The following parameters & defects are checked prior to cutting.

1. Shade Matching
2. Fabric Construction
3. GSM (grams per square metre)
4. Whales & courses if required)
5. Diameter
6. Dyeing Levelness
7. Ecological parameters if required
8. Softness
9. Shrinkage
10. Matching of Rib, Collars & Cuffs
11. Fabric Holes
12. Vertical & Horizontal Stripes
13. Knitting defects such as missing loops, sinker lines, etc.
14. Bowing
15. Skewing
16. Yarn defects such as thick & thin places
17. Dirts & Stains

 

During Production Inspection

 

1. Verify cutting patterns
2. Cut components measurements
3. Cutting shapes
4. Fabric defects
5. Other specific parameters as required by the customers Rib, Collars & Cuffs matching
6. Stitching defects
7. Sewing threads matching
8. Dirts & Stains
9. Measurements
10. Labels
11. Trims & Accessories

Before Production Inspection

Many of the important parameters of Pre-productions, During productions & Final inspection parameters. This is to ensure that wrong or major defective garments are not packed.