Defects analysis in the apparel industry

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* Head of Garment Technology Department at The Technological in Samanood

Abstract

Increasing the production rate along with quality improvement is a major challenge in the (RMG) sector of Egypt. For sustaining in competitive textile business, it is important to minimize the cost of production and cutting wastage reduction. Fabric quality improvement can reduce the sewing defects.

Improvements in the quality of processes lead to cost reductions as well as service enhancements. In the more recent history of the quality development, the quality improvement program Six Sigma has been successful. The case study conducted on a knitting mill near Mansoura. During the production of knit garment many defects are found in the garment. These defects make the garment poor in quality which may leads to the rejection of the garments from the buyer due to poor garment quality.

Application of Pareto chart, fish bone diagram and Process Sigma Level/and or Performance Level tools helps solving those problems on priority basis. Corresponding training has been given to quality control team as to prevent those problems in future. The result came out with significant process sigma level of )4( for knitted garment, which used to be (0.91) in previous production quality.

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