Quality & Quality Inspection

Quality inspection in apparel industries:

Quality inspection is done to control quality of garments. Checking of fabric, sewing thread,
button, stitch, zipper, garments size etc according to required standard or specification is known
as inspection. Quality inspection is important for every section of apparel industries.
There are three steeps in apparel industries to control quality, i.e.
1. Raw Material Inspection;

2. In Process Inspection;

3. Final Inspection;

Raw Material Inspection:

Fabric, sewing thread, button, trims, interlining, labels, tags quality check is done in raw material
inspection steep.
1. Fabric Inspection

2. Sewing Thread Inspection

3. Trims & Accessories check

In Process Inspection
Inspectioning different parts of garments before sewing are called in process inspection. It starts
from marker making, than fabric spreading, fabric cutting, fabric sewing, pressing or finishing
checking is done in process.
 Marker Making
 Fabric Spreading
 Fabric Cutting
 Shorting/ Bundling
 Fabric Sewing
In garments industries most large & important section is sewing section. In this section it is
necessary to check all the machine operators’ work. In this section some common faults and
problems must be considered, these are;
Those things are plays important role that have to be check during in process.
Final Inspection
In final inspection generally inspect fully complete garments. Before final inspection there has
no chance to check complete garments. It is important from the buyer to finally check. In final
inspection normally garments size, form fitting, fabric faults are check.

Critical operation:
An operation that is difficult to handle takes more time compare to other operation or where
the line takes extra care to make a defect free garment.

Operation bulletin of formal check shirt:

Firstly all the parts of shirt is stitched respectively
 Cuff
 Sleeve Placket
 Back Attached with tag
 Front Placket and Button holing
 Collar
And finally all these parts are assembled:
 Yoke attached with back
 Shoulder attached
 Armhole attached with sleeve
 Side seam
 Collar attached with neck
 Bottom hemming
 Button Attaching
Critical Operation in Formal Shirt are:
Front placket:
This is the critical operation in making a formal check shirt, once the placket is
stitched and the line of check or boxes are not matched with front panel or any
skip stitch occurs during stitching then it is difficult to rectify. As it is the front
parts of shirt so quality of stitch matters . If collar attached with neck and placket
and any fault occurs then we have to open the stich of collar to correct the
placket.

And also the position of bottom holing in another placket should be checked, if
there is any fault in holing then its difficult for button to enter in the hole..
So there should be an inspection check point so that any fault or defect can rectify
before entering into next steps.
Sleeve placket :
Sleeve placket made up of two layer upper and lower and upper layer consist of a
diamond like shape which is difficult to stitch.. once sleeve placket is finished it is
attached with cuff . If there is any fault in diamond shape making then we have to
open the cuff then correct the placket which is critical operation.

The picture shows the sleeve placket with diamond like shape. There should be an
inspection check point so that before attaching cuff or stitching side seam we can
rectify the placket.

Sleeve attach:
Attaching sleeve to the bodice is a critical checkpoint as the chances of puckering
in this operation is high, reopening and sewing would hamper the fabric quality by
fraying and extension.
Collar:
Collar of formal shirt is the main parts of garment which is very difficult to stitch
Collar is firstly attached with collar band and then is attached with the neck line
.Before attaching with line collar should be checked.. The point of collar are
matching or not, once it is attached with neck line then it is difficult to correct, For
that whole collar with band will open and then again stitch to correct the points
of collar
So it is the critical operation, and there should be an inspection check point
Before attaching collar with neck line.