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Quality Control vs. Quality Assurance in the Garment Supply Chain

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Quality Control vs. Quality Assurance in the Garment Supply Chain

Ensuring high-quality products is essential for success in the garment industry. Two key processes that help maintain quality standards are Quality Control (QC) and Quality Assurance (QA). While often confused, these terms refer to different approaches in quality management. QC focuses on detecting and correcting defects in finished garments, while QA works to prevent defects…

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What is AQL in Garment Industry?

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What is AQL in Garment Industry?

  AQL means Acceptable Quality Level. If your company is working with international apparel buyers, your factory might be using this AQL. AQL based quality inspection and sampling method is widely used in the garment industry. AQL is a statistical measurement used to determine the maximum number of defective items considered acceptable during the inspection…

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What is Shade Variation in Fabrics and Garments?

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What is Shade Variation in Fabrics and Garments?

What is Shade?  Different shades of any items are of the same color with variations in color tone and depth. In a single color, you can get many shades. To match the actual color and shade, fabrics sample is matched with the color standards (Pantone shade card).  What is Shade Variation in Fabrics? Fabric shade…

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What is the Full Form of POM in Garments?

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What is the Full Form of POM in Garments?

The full form of POM is point of measurement. This means that the list of measurement points needs to be measured to ensure the garment measurement. The list of POMs for the inspection depends on the product type and the buyer’s quality requirement.  In a garment measurement inspection sheet, a pre-defined list of POMs is…

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How to remove polyester yarn contamination from fabrics?

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How to remove polyester yarn contamination from fabrics?

The problem It is often found that fabric is contaminated with polyester yarns during weaving and knitting processes in the mills. Yarn contamination problem is a great issue across textile industry. Mainly garment exporters face problem when they see such yarn contamination on their fabric lots. The contamination is visible as white yarn woven or…

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Functions of the Quality Control Department in the Garment Industry

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Functions of the Quality Control Department in the Garment Industry

The garment industry, precisely a garment export house processes export orders in the garment manufacturing factories. While raw materials are converted into garments, there are possibilities to make errors, like making defective garment components and defective garments. Making defective garments is a cost to the company. So, to make sure garments are made as per…

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What is Bow and Skew in Fabric?

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What is Bow and Skew in Fabric?

Bowing and skewing in finished fabric are among the common problems found in woven fabrics.  In the finished fabric, distortion of warp and weft yarns alignment happened due to improper tension application on fabric across the width in weaving and finishing process. As a result, Bow or Skew occurred in woven fabrics. In this page,…

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What is GPQ in garment quality control?

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What is GPQ? GPQ stands for Guideline for Production and Quality Control as explained in H&M’s Quality Manual. But this term is also known as Garment Process Quality.  Garment manufacturers who manufacture garments for the apparel buyer H&M need to follow GPQ system. GPQ is used to ensure the quality of the finished product meets…

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What is AQL (Acceptable Quality Level)?

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AQL is a widely used term in apparel product inspection. 100% inspection of finished garments is not performed. Instead, sample-based inspection is preferred for apparel products. Mostly AQL system is followed at the final shipment inspection. That is prior to shipping an export order. Though suppliers can follow the AQL system (sampling type and AQL…

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What is RQS System and Responsibility of RQS Team

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Full form of the RQS is – Requirement for Quality System. This term is associated with  H&M quality requirement for suppliers. In a job posting, H&M explained the responsibility of RQS personnel: The RQS is accountable to: Develop and secure H&M Group Suppliers on RQS – Requirement for Quality System Develop an internal Quality Control…

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