Garments Manufacturing

The 15 quotes below are our most recent inspiration: “Be passionate about solving the problem, not proving your solution.” ~Nathan Furr “The starting point of all achievement is desire.” ~Napoleon Hill “A bad workman blames his tools.” ~Chinese Proverb “Without changing our patterns of thought, we will not be able to solve the problems that we created with our current patterns of thought.” ~Albert Einstein “The most dangerous kind of waste is the waste we do not recognize.” ~Shigeo Shingo “Every action is an opportunity to improve.” ~Mark Graban “If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well.” ~Chinese Proverb “More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause.” ~Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy “Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing… layout, processes, and procedures.” ~Tom Peters “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it ...

The plan–do–check–act cycle (Figure 1) is a four–step model for carrying out change. Just as a circle has no end, the PDCA cycle should be repeated again and again for continuous improvement. When to Use Plan–Do–Check–Act ·          As a model for continuous improvement. ·          When starting a new improvement project. ·          When developing a new or improved design of a process, product or service. ·          When defining a repetitive work process. ·          When planning data collection and analysis in order to verify and prioritize problems or root causes. ·          When implementing any change. Plan–Do–Check–Act Procedure 1.     Plan. Recognize an opportunity and plan a change. 2.  ...

Inline Inspection means checking quality of the product in the process instead of checking at the end of the process when product is completely made. It means checking of semi-stitched garments or partially stitched garments while pieces are still inside the line and all sewing operations are not yet stitched or some make as say early stage of production.   1) Inline at check points: Quality checker checks semi-stitched garment at fixed workstation inside the sewing line at critical operations only. This checking station is known as checkpoint. At this checkpoint quality checker checks all operations done up to that point. 100% garments are checked at this check points. A line may have multiple checkpoints depending on product type. 2) Roaming quality or line quality: A quality checker may be appointed to check garments at all workstations in a sewing line randomly. This inline checker goes to every workstation and randomly picks bundles and checks few pieces (7...

Quality is customer satisfaction, happy end customer. The common element of the business definitions is that the quality of a product or service refers to the perception of the degree to which the product or service meets the customer's expectations. Quality has no specific meaning unless related to a specific function and/or object, it call quality is endless but not rocket science. Various interpretations are given below: 1. According to Philip Crosby, Quality is “Conformance to Requirements.”  2. According to Joseph Juran, quality is “Fitness for Use”. When “fitness for use” concept applied to garment it must Be free from defects such as stains fabric defects, open seams, broken stitch, misaligned button and holes, defective zippers etc.  Fit properly to the wearer (as per labeled size). Perform satisfactorily in normal use that means a garment must be able to withstand normal laundering/ dry cleaning cycle without color loss or ...

This is the Basic style Bra making line layout as a reference, this layout actually depend on style & process wise. Operation Breakdown: Bra   OP # SEWING PROCESS SAM MACHINE 1 Join Cups 0.57 SNLS 2 Attach Tape to Cups 0.73 DNLS 3 attach Elastic to side cups 0.44 3SZZ 4 Set support Panels 0.39 SNLS 5 Serge support panels 0.62 3TOL 6 Join support panels, cup and front 1.52 SNLS 7 Attach cover stitch tape to front 0.61 DNLS 8 Join backs to cups 0.55 SNLS 9 Attach cover stitch tape to sides 0.47 DNLS 10 Attach lace and tape to cups 0.76 DNLS 11 Attach elastic to band 0...

Shade variation is one of the common problems found in production. A garment with shade variation is considered as a faulty garment. Shade variation in a garment is occurred when different garment components have different depth of colors (shade) or mismatch of shades in garment parts of a same garment. Shade variation in garment comes due to shade variation in fabric of an order. Most of the time shade variation happened due mishandling of fabric multiple lots, rolls during cutting fabrics and bundles in sewing floor. Shade variation in fabric may appear as Within same fabric roll there may be shade variation like 'center to selvage' and 'salvage to salvage' Within same fabric roll length wise shade variation  Shade variation in between fabric rolls Shade variation in garments (between different components of the same garment) can be controlled if a SOP is set and employees follow that SOP to reduce shade variation in garments. From fabri...

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