Quality Assurance:
Quality assurance is defined as all those possible planned and systematic actions necessary to provide adequate confidence that a product or service will satisfy given requirements for quality. The quality assurance section is assigned to maintain consistency for the 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 the final finished garment. Process Flow Chart of the Quality Assurance Department in the Garment Industry is as follows:
Flow Chart of Quality Assurance Department in Garment Industry
Accessories check
↓
Fabric inspection
↓
Shade segregation
↓
Shrinkage test
↓
Size set check
↓
Marker check
↓
Spreading quality assurance
↓
Cutting quality assurance
↓
Hard pattern check
↓
Pre-production meeting
↓
General instruction
↓
Inspector layout
↓
In process audit
↓
Two-time process check
↓
Two-time machine check
↓
Two-time accessories check
↓
Weekly in process summary
↓
100% in the line process check
↓
Sewing final check
↓
Hourly final audit with measurement
↓
Finishing 100% check
↓
Button pulls check
↓
Hourly final audit
↓
Broken needle check
↓
Accessories compliance
↓
Every final audit
↓
Pre-final inspection
↓
Ready for final inspection
↓
Shipment
In the textile industry, quality is the most important thing. So maintaining quality control in textile is a supreme priority task for textile engineers. A quality controller assure that there is no fault in a product. Because nowadays customers are very much concern about their product quality. We need quality control to meet the buyer’s or customer’s satisfaction level.
To assure the right uses of raw materials and reduces defects and increase the quality of the product, make a good bonding between buyers and customers, added brand value. To survive in the competitive market place. The low-quality product can not be acceptable by the customers or buyers. It takes more time to deliver a product. Bad quality decreases production. Decreases of brand value just because of a low-quality product. So a quality controller team tries to maintain the best quality of a product. Without quality control, an industry never survives in the market. We should have to be focused on maintaining the perfect quality of a product.
Author of this Article: Noor Ahmed Raaz B.Sc. in Apparel Manufacturing Asst. Merchandiser Opex Sinha Group, Narayongonj Email: raju.uttara72@yahoo.com