Cutting quality plays an important role to make the best quality garments. The cutting section makes the raw shape of garments. If the quality of the cutting section is poor, the defects and rejects of the sewing section will be high. In this article, I will discuss the quality checkpoints of the cutting section to ensure and supply the best quality cut panel to the sewing section.
Quality checkpoints of the cutting section may divide into 6 categories-
- Fabric Quality Inspection
- Marker Quality Inspection
- Spreading Quality Inspection
- Cutting quality Control
- Cut Panel Quality Inspection.
- Piece Goods Inspection.
1. Fabric Quality Inspection
After receiving fabric from the store by cutting section, the cutting quality inspector checks the following fabric information. If all information is correct, then proceed to the next step. The information is-
✔ Roll to roll fabric shade group check
✔ Fabric GSM and diameter check.
✔ 4-Point Fabric Inspection.
✔ Fabric Shrinkage test.
2. Marker Quality Inspection
If all information about the fabric is correct, the marker quality inspection is run. Marker inspection may run a parallel way for saving time. Generally, the subjects of marker quality inspection checking points are-
✔ Marker length and width.
✔ Marker efficiency and consumption
✔ Marker type.
✔ Style/Lot.
✔ Lay quantity.
✔ Marker ratio.
✔ All individual parts of garments are marked in marker.
✔ 3D marker.
3. Spreading Quality Inspection
If all information on the marker is correct, the spreading quality inspection is started. The subjects of spreading quality inspection checking points are-
✔ Checking the number of layers as it should not exceed the standards.
✔ Lay ends check
✔ Lay tension check
✔ Lay height check
✔ Fabric Fault.
✔ Narrow goods.
✔ Lay length check
✔ Check as the marker is best fitted to lay
4. Cutting quality Control
After spreading activity cutting is started if there is no relaxation issue. If fabric needs to relax, cutting activity is started after relaxing the fabric. The main checking points during cutting is-
✔ Checking cut panel accuracy with pattern
✔ Rightly cutting of lay edge checking.
✔ Checking size mixing
✔ Checking the number of Parts.
✔ Checking the number of Notches.
✔ Checking matching piles.
5. Cut Panel Quality Inspection
After cutting the lay, need to check the cut panel before final bundling and sending it to the cutting rack. The most important quality checkpoints for the cut panel are-
✔ Pattern check
✔ Shade check
✔ Size wise ratio check
✔ Fabric check (Spot, Hole, Knot, Slab, Contamination, Lycra out etc.)
✔ If a fabric is stripe, check the strip mismatch
✔ Bundle check
6. Piece Goods Inspection
✔ Cheek Quantity.
✔ Cheek End Out.
✔ Cheek knot.
✔ Cheek Spot.
✔ Cheek hole.
✔ Thick Yarn.
✔ Missing Yarn.
✔ cheek Shading.
✔ cheek Slab
Md.Mahbub-Ul Islam
RMG Consultant & Researcher
