Handbook Of Managing Apparel Production And Quality

Covers the concepts of merchandising, production planning, industrial engineering, production management, waste management, quality management, and cost management in the garment industry.

This Easy-To-Follow Reference Book Explores All Aspects Of Quality For The Clothing And Apparel Industry - Detailing The Fundamental Principles As Well As The Latest Topics In The Quality Profession.This Book Is Further Refinement Of The Work Published Entitled An Introduction To Quality Control For The Apparel Industry By The American Society For Quality In September 1992.Presenting Quality As An Overall Business Strategy And Management Function, Managing Quality In The Apparel Industry Explains What Is Quality, Why Quality Is Important, And Describes How To Build Quality Into Products, Shows How To Evaluate Quality Of All The Components That Go Into Making Garments, Explains How To Measure The Cost Of Quality Or Rather Poor Quality, And Shows How To Begin To Manage Quality.Providing Hundreds Of Excerpts, Managing Quality In The Apparel Industry Is A Practical Source For Quality Control Managers, Supervisors, Inspectors, Technicians, And Executives; And Upper-Level Undergraduates And Graduate Students In These Disciplines.

This book aims to provide a broad conceptual and theoretical perspective of apparel manufacturing process starting from raw material selection to packaging and dispatch of goods. Further, engineering practices followed in an apparel industry for production planning and control, line balancing, implementation of industrial engineering concepts in apparel manufacturing, merchandising activities and garment costing have been included, and they will serve as a foundation for future apparel professionals. The book addresses the technical aspects in each section of garment manufacturing process with considered quality aspects. This book also covers the production planning process and production balancing activities. It addresses the technical aspects in each section of garment manufacturing process and quality aspects to be considered in each process. Garment engineering questions each process/operation of the total work content and can reduce the work content and increase profitability by using innovative methods of construction and technology. This book covers the production planning process, production balancing activities, and application of industrial engineering concepts in garment engineering. Further, the merchandising activities and garment costing procedures will deal with some practical examples. This book is primarily intended for textile technology and fashion technology students in universities and colleges, researchers, industrialists and academicians, as well as professionals in the apparel and textile industry.

In today's global apparel industry, garments that are designed domestically are often manufactured overseas. Apparel Production Management and the Technical Package is essential for fashion students and professionals who want to understand this growing trend in production and gain the skills necessary for this new universe of apparel manufacturing. The text provides an overview of production management and processes in the global marketplace and examines in detail the components of the technical package, or tech-pack--a series of forms that defines a garment's specifications and is critical to ensuring that a particular style is executed correctly and in the most cost- and time-efficient manner possible. Features -Diagrams of a production department's division of labor, costing components, and global sourcing structure -Discussion of the role of technology in production management, including PDM and PLM software -Examples of completed technical package sheets from actual apparel companies -Blank technical package sheets representing the standard of what is used across the apparel industry -Appendices containing basic body croquis, industrial sewing stitches, a button selector gauge, care labeling regulations, and blank templates from a standard tech-pack

This user-friendly guide to evaluating apparel quality to ensure quality products that meet customer expectations highlights the roles of product designers, manufacturers, merchandisers, testing laboratories, and retailers from product inception through the sale of goods. In Apparel Quality: A Guide to Evaluating Sewn Products, Bubonia provides an overview of apparel production, emphasizing quality characteristics and cues, consumer influences and motivations impacting purchasing decisions. Also covered is the relationship between apparel manufacturing and production processes, cost, price point, and quality level of an apparel product. The text is highly illustrated to provide students with the tools needed to evaluate and critique quality elements in apparel and textile products skillfully. The roles of industry professionals are discussed throughout the book to show application to various positions within the field

CONTENTS Containing chapters on conventional quality management, Zero defects - How not to produce bad work; Inspection, measuring and testing - Inputs to correction; The ISO 9000 standard - A framework for good quality management; The road to total quality management; Quality circles; Total Quality Management and case studies in TQM.