Quality:

Quality is a relative term. It means customer needs is to be satisfied. Quality is of prime importance in
any aspect of business specially of export oriented products. Customers demand and expect value for
money. As producers of apparel there must be a constant endeavor to produce work of good quality.
Process flow chart of quality section of garment is given below.

Quality section in garment industry

Working Sequence of Quality Section:
Sample comments follow-up measurement
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Pattern grading
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Pattern through to cutting section
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Fabric inspection (GSM, color shade etc)
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Fabric Ok
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Lay check
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Print check
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Line check
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Sewing output check
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After remove if have
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Finishing (ironing)
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Main check ( size measurement)
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Size wise measurement
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Get up checking
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4 point measurement
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Packing
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Hand tag follows up
Introduction:
Sewing section is the most important department of a garment manufacturing industry. Because after
receive the garments components from cutting section , all the garment's cut parts are assembled here.

Sewing section

Quality Control in Sewing Section:

 Input material checking
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Cut panel and accessories checking
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Machine is in well condition
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Thread count check
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Special work like embroidery, printing panel check
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Needle size checking
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Stitching the fault should be checked
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Garments measurement check
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Seam fault check
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Size mistake check
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Mismatching matching of trimming
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Shade variation within the cloth
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Wrong placement of interlining
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Creased or wrinkle appearance control.

Quality Management System:

Quality management strives towards the achievement of quality in everything one does. Quality means
conformance to customer requirements. In to-days highly competitive economy, business must face the
challenge of continually improving the quality of goods or services. A number of systems, measures and
techniques that are quality only are produced in the first place and do not originate at all. If they occur
at all, there must be corrective actions so that they are eliminated in the preliminary stage and would
not reappear. For increasing productivity in garment industry need a strong quality management
system. Here the flowchart of quality management system is given for apparel industry.
 Garment industry

Flow Chart of Quality Management System in the Industry Garments

QMS generally employs the following measures, the quality assurance techniques are produced:

Inspect all incoming, process & final goods to ensure quality of goods.
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Ensure that all patterns & grading of patterns are okay.
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Inspect marker and check if it is okay and within consumption.
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Inspect spreading, cutting & numbering.
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Ensure if relaxation time is given to knit fabric.
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Install in-line inspector in the sewing lines.
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Install Traffic Light Chart system or other system to monitor quality in production line.
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Inspect 100% goods delivered from sewing lines.
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 Inspect the table quality passed garments with Statistical Technique.
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Control rejects goods so that they don't mixup with quality passed goods.
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Control repairable goods, washable goods so that they can be double checked to ensure quality.
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Inspect goods with right equipment's and in right conditions.
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Inspect ironing, folding.
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Make repeat inspection of garments prior to poly-bagging.
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Inspect poly-bagging & assortment.
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Final table inspection in conducted prior to shipment of goods.
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QA training plans personnel so that they can
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The QA training personnel on Statistical Methods.
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Continuous improvement plans & implement them.

Garments Quality Control:

Quality is a relative term. It means customer needs is to be satisfied. Quality is very important in apparel
industry. Without quality buyer don't interested to buy product. So maintaining garments quality is the
prime concern for production. For helping the beginners now I am giving flowchart on garments quality
control.
 Garments quality control

Flow Chart of Garments Quality Control

Received finished fabric

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Checking finished fabric
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Marker
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Spreading
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Cutting
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Numbering
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Checking
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Bounding
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Cutting quality audit
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Input
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 Empost measurement checking
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Table inspection
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Alter/Rectification
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Sewing quality audit
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Iron
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Empost checking for finishing
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Quality audit for workmanship
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Basic measurement check
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Folding
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Poly/Hangar
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Metal detector checking
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Carton
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Carton quality audit
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Internal final inspection

Quality Assurance:
Quality assurance is defined as all those possible planned and systematic actions necessary to provide
adequate confidence than a product or service will satisfy given requirements for quality. The quality
assurance section is assigned to maintain consistency for uniform quality of the material in process &
various stages of garment manufacturing. In the garment industry quality control is practiced right from
the initial stage of sourcing raw materials to the stage of final finished garment.
 Quality Assurance of Garment

Process Flow Chart of Quality Assurance Department

Accessories check
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Fabric inspection
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Shade segregation
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Shrinkage test
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Size set check
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Marker check
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Spreading quality assurance
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Cutting quality assurance
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Hard pattern check
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Pre-production meeting
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General instruction
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 Inspector layout
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In process audit
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Two time process check
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Two time machin check
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Two time accessories check
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Weekly in process summary
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100% in line process check
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Sewing final check
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Hourly final audit with measurement
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Finishing 100% check
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Button pulls check
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Hourly final audit
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Broken needle check
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Accessories compliance
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Every final audit
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Pre-final inspection
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Ready for final inspection
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Shipment

Merchandising:
Merchandising is the department which mediates marketing and production departments. It is the
methods, practices, and operations used to promote and sustain certain categories of commercial
activity. So it is a very valuable department in apparel industry. Apparel merchandiser is a potential
person in buying house.
 Apparel merchandising

Process Flow Chart of Merchandising

Received art work and size specification for development of the sample
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Making development sample
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Consumption (from CAD) & costing
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Meeting with buyer for price & order confirmation and LC received
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Lab-dip approval
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Making different types of sample (as per buyer requirement) for approval
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Making pre-production (pp) sample with all actual
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Yarn booking
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Bulk fabric order
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Accessories order
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 After approval of pp sample arrange pp meeting
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Start bulk production
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Arrange an inline inspection
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Send a test sample to 3rd party testing center
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After completion of bulk production arrange final inspection
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Arrange all commercial papers for shipment
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Shipment
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Sending documents to Buyer
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Payments receive from Bank