Garment Inspection

Garments Inspection 

The inspection that is done for controlling the quality of garments is mainly meant to examine in bare eyes. Checking of the fabrics of garments, sewing, button, thread, zipper, measurements of garments etc. with the standard process is called the inspection. In each section of a garments industry, there are arrangements for inspection. The main purpose of inspection is to identify the faults at the earliest possible steps for production of garments and earlier the defects will be detected lesser will be the wastage of time and money. 

For conducting successful and meaningful inspection, steps can be adopted as per the ‘inspection loop’ described below. First, identify defects through inspection, inform about the defects to the concerned person, identify the causes of defects, and rectify them. 

Garments Inspection Steps 

In garments Industry, inspection is generally conducted in three steps: 

1. Raw material 
2. In Process and 
3. Final 

1.Raw Material Inspection 

In garments industry, raw material means mainly the fabrics, but sewing thread, zipper or chain, interlining etc. also may be considered under the items of raw material. 

• Fabric Inspection-Local or foreign that means whatever be the country of origin of fabrics, the quality of fabrics should be well judged before purchasing of fabrics, because, if not so, both time and money may be wasted. Specially, due to the low-grade fabrics, burden of irreparable loss may have to be borne. Some factories do inspection after reaching the fabrics at their factories. But it is wise to do the fabric inspection at sellers' factory. 
• Sewing thread Inspection 

2.In-Process Inspection 

The process of inspection of the various parts of a garment before joining is called in-process inspection. In garments industry, inspection is done in each section starting from spreading to finishing. The main objective of in-process inspection is to identify the defects in the primary stages of various sections and to adopt the necessary steps to rectify the defects. Because, the defects detected as earlier, its rectification cost will be lesser. In order to control the quality of garments.

• Marker making-If mistakes or defects occurred in marker making, the quality of garments will be lower. So, all the matters involved in marker making, should be inspected properly.
• Fabric Spreading-The defects during spreading of the fabrics, for which the quality of garments may be lower, should be taken care at the time of spreading of fabrics.
• Fabric Cutting-The most important precondition for making of high-quality garments is the cutting of fabrics in high quality. So, the factors related to fabric cutting, should be inspected carefully. 
• Fabric Sewing-In garments manufacturing industries, the most specious and the most important section is the fabric sewing section. The jobs of each sewing machine operator of this section should be regularly inspected 
• Pressing or Finishing-The main objective of pressing or finishing is to make arrangement so that garments look good, because, in most of the cases a customer takes the buying decision of the garment based on whether it looks good or not though buying of a garment also depends on its price, quality, standard etc. For this reason, pressing or finishing is very much important. 

3.Final Inspection 

In the final inspection, mainly the whole inspection of garments is done, because, before this stage, there is no opportunity to do inspection of a complete garment. This final inspection is very much important from the buyer's end. In this final inspection, mainly the size of the garments, form fitting, and the defects of the garments are inspected.