If you are already working in garment production, you might know that garments are inspected at various stages in the manufacturing process. Common Inspection stages practised by garment factories have been explained in this article.
In this post, I will show you how to make quality inspection reports for the manufacturing process. Here the term 'Garment Inspection' means all kind of garment checking other than final shipment inspection.
Let come to the main topic. How to make garment checking report (inspection report)? In this post, I have explained simple to the complex form of data collection and report making. Use one that matches your requirement and follow the procedure.
First, define what is the purpose of making a quality inspection report in your factory. Then according to the information required you have to design inspection format. For your information, common quality measures are Percentage Defective of garments in a production lot, DHU etc.
Your objective of garment inspection might be one of the followings. Method of making inspection report explained accordingly.
1. Do you like to know how much Defective Garments are made in the last production day? Use the simple method -1.
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| Figure-1: Quality Inspection data collection format |
2. Do you need to know how many Defects are produced by your tailors? Follow the simple method -2
DHU = (Totals defects found X 100)/Total pieces checked
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| Figure-2: Quality Inspection data collection format |
3. Do you like to make measurement checking report? Follow simple method-3.
4. Want to know what are the major defects in a garment lot? And like to find DHU and Defective percentage data in a single format? Follow the advanced method.
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| Fig-3: Pareto of Sewing defects |
The actual fact - many garment manufacturers fill complex inspection format. But they don't make any inspection report and don't draw any conclusion from the collected data. It is also important to summarize the report, otherwise, no action and decision can be taken at post-inspection.
There is a big difference between recording on a blank inspection form and making a quality report. A filled format says nothing if collected data is not summarized, comments and action plan are written at the end of the inspection report. Mention clearly what action to be taken by the production team and quality controller based on the product quality report summary. Like, if it is in-process checking mention what errors are frequently happening. If it is final inspection or audit mention whether an audit is Passed/Failed/ need to be rechecked.
You can use inspection report data in many ways. You can go deeper and dig down more about defects generation with the facts that you have collected in the above inspection reports. You can even track the reasons for occurring particular defect.
Prasanta Sarkar is a textile engineer and a postgraduate in fashion technology from NIFT, New Delhi, India. He has authored 6 books in the field of garment manufacturing technology, garment business setup, and industrial engineering. He loves writing how-to guide articles in the fashion industry niche. He has been working in the apparel manufacturing industry since 2006. He has visited garment factories in many countries and implemented process improvement projects in numerous garment units in different continents including Asia, Europe, and South Africa. He is the founder and editor of the Online Clothing Study Blog.
