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Lesson 22 - 29 (2) : Inspection

Objectives

At the end of this lesson you shall be able to
• What is inspection and its importance
• What are different techniques/types of inspections
• Which defects can be seen during inspection

1.1 INSPECTION (Techniques to maintain the quality)
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.
In garments Industry, inspection is generally conducted in three steps:

1 Raw Material Inspection
2 In Process Inspection
3 Final Inspection

2.1. Raw Material Inspection
In garments industry, raw material means mainly the fabrics, but sewing thread, zipper, interlining etc. also may
be considered under the items of raw material. Raw material inspection is important so as to achieve good quality
standard in garment. It saves the further labour, repairing and rework which results in low cost of the garment with
minimum efforts.

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