Product and service quality play the significant role in business sustainability. The same thing applies to garments as a product. In the buyer's market, quality is the core of a business for what it gets acceptance and credibility among its clients. This article shows quality control practices that are being followed by most of the organized garment export houses.
Fabric Quality Checking
The fabric is the primary raw material and most costly item in apparel product manufacturing. A defective fabric will produce a defective garment. To avoid fabric related defects in garments, fabrics are inspected prior to cutting. Depending on the quality standards 100% inspection or 10% or random lot inspection is done. Common defects found in fabrics are like - weaving defects, holes, printing/dyeing defects, water crease marks, color variations, etc. Factories generally follow 4-point system for fabric inspection for woven as well as knits fabrics. |
| QC Procedures |
Trim and Accessory Quality Checking
All trims are checked for durability and performance. All trims are attached correctly using proper attachment methods. Ribbons ends are heat sealed. Trim materials are checked to perform consistently with the base fabric performance with no differential shrinkage.
Cutting Quality checking
Shade variation in cut bundles is being controlled. Other important quality aspects that are taken care are like – using a pattern according to fabric shrinkage, controlling fabric skew or torque, all plaids, horizontal/vertical stripes are given extra care so as to match the stripes. Light weight fabrics are relaxed to avoid measurement error while stitching.