Study on Fabric & Garments Inspection of a woven Garments Factory

Abstract

Ready-made garments business is a fast growing business in Bangladesh. Foreign buyer from all over the world put their order in Bangladesh for the low production cost and high profit. Because the worker wages are very low in Bangladesh. In recent time production cost increased in RMG sector by many causes. Garment defect is one of them. This article is encouraged by many unavoidable reason in rejection of large number of finished garments. The fast changing economic conditions such as global competition, declining profit margin, short lead time, new product development and buyer demand for high quality product at low cost push the manufactures to reduce their production cost. But they aren’t compromise to the quality. So this is the big challenge for the manufacturer to increase production and reducing cost garment against certain specification provided for quality standard. In this report investigates different causes

that is responsible for garments defects, rejects and wastage and discusses some short- term and long-term solutions that should be taken for reducing wastage in the apparel

industries. We completed our thesis project on Study on fabric and Garments Inspection of woven Garments factory. This paper clearly explains the trims and accessories reports, fabric inspection report, daily garments alter (%) report, In-line garments inspection report, pre final garments inspection report, final garments inspection report, daily styling check report, hourly measurement report, bottom quality inspection report, Rejection analysis report. This project based on the different types of fabric and sewing defects and their remedies. In the textile industry, Inspection is basically done before the shipment. This Project is done by Dekko Desings Limited. In this industry sewing section has 2nd, 3rd ,

4 th and 5th floors. There are 8th sewing line per sewing floor and total sewing line are 32. Monthly production capacity 1049374 Pcs/month, number of line 32, number of M/C 3347, number of manpower 5560. In our study, we are focus on important of sewing defects and fabric defects, how to control sewing defect in garment industry, how to work pre-final and final and final

©Daffodil International University vi inspection and I am trying to identify that problem, reason and their remedies. In my project, I have investigated 20 sewing defect reports from sewing input to output of finishing section. From the analysis of the reports, we find different types of defect that are found in sewing and finishing section. Such as: Broken stitch, oil mark, hole, open seam, label slanted, dirty mark, oil mark, slanted seam, uncut thread, twisting placket slanted, embroidery hole, tension problem, raw age, stripe miss-match, part shading, print problem, foreign yarn, needle mark, connecting thread, pleat, puckering, uneven joint stitch, needle damage etc. Maximum numbers of faults are Skip stitch 9.80%, Broken stitch 4.43%, raw edge out 5.42%, Uncut thread 5.7%, puckering 10.67%, uneven 11.72%, up down waist band 15.34% etc.