To find defective garments, checkers check the garment lots and detect the defective pieces in the checking process and inspection stage. To manage your repair operation, you need to set up a checking process, detecting defective garments, sending defective garments for repair work, and get the piece repaired.
A factory can check garments in the following stages.
- At the checkpoints inside the line (fixed workstation)
- Checking garments prior to assembly section
- Checking garments at the end of each part completion
- Checking garments at the end of the sewing line
- Checking garments at the finishing stage
Also, read quality checkpoints in garment production
How the defective pieces sent back to the operator for repair work?
- Collect all the defectives garments and send for repair in a lot (number of pieces after the certain interval)
- Sent piece by piece whenever a defective piece found by a checker.
- Once get a single defect and sent for repair first, instead of checking the whole garment (rest of the parts checking will be done later and it will be followed in the cycle).
- Check all the whole garments, mark all defects on the garment then send for repair. All stitching repairs can be done by a single operator for all the defective stitching
Repairing Process
- by a repair operator (in the repair section)
- the defective garment is sent to the same line and to the same operator who stitched the garment first time for the specific operation
- the repair can be done by a different operator from the same sewing line (as the availability of the operators).
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Conclusion:
The above details are explained based on checking and repair work followed in assembly lines (PBS). For the other production system, a similar method can be used with little modification.
You can make a matrix with these three criteria and prepare an SOP for repair work in your factory. At what stage the garment will be checked, and defective pieces detected – When the garment will be sent for repair – Who will repair the defective piece.
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