APPAREL PRODUCTION AND QUALITY CONTROL

Paper Code: 
GPM-501
Credits: 
03
Contact Hours: 
45.00
Max. Marks: 
100.00
Objective: 
  1. To enable students to give knowledge of apparel production in various stages of
     manufacturing
  2. To introduce the concept and importance of quality control
  3. To understand the importance of standards and labels in an apparel industry
9.00
Unit I: 
• Apparel Production Operations
  • Marker making
  • Spreading
  • Cutting
9.00
Unit II: 
• Stitches, Seams, Threads and Needles
  • Stitches
  • Seams
  • Sewing threads
  • Needles
9.00
Unit III: 
• Laundry Department
  • Laundry Department
  • Principles and methods of application of laundry
  • Role of water hardness and its removal
  • Laundry aids: soaps, detergents, bleaches, stain removers, whiteness
          and stiffening agents
    • Finishing and pressing department
  •    Machinery and equipments
  • Packing department
  • Packing material and boxing
9.00
Unit IV: 
• Quality control
  • Definition of quality, Seven tools of quality & Consumer’s perception of quality
  • Importance of quality assurance
  • Quality assurance in raw material, pattern and fit
9.00
Unit V: 
• Standards
  • Standards   
    •      Benefits of standards
    •      Levels of standards
    •      Sources of standards
  • Care labeling
  • Importance, terminology, symbols and usage
    •       International care labeling system
    •       Eco labeling
Essential Readings: 
  1. Ruth E. Glock,Grace I. Kunz, Apparel Manufacturing, Sewing product Analysis,Fourth edition
  2. Solinger, Jacob., Apparel Manufacturing Handbook, VanNostra and Reinhold Company, 1980.
  3. Amita,A. Stamper, Sue Humphries Stamp., Evaluating Apparel Quality, Fairchild publications, New York,1986

            4.   Clarie Shaeffer, Sewing for the Apparel Industry, Prentice Hall, New Jersy, 2000

5.   Rajesh Bheda, Managing Productivity in the Apparel Industry

6.   Gerry Cooklin, Introduction to Clothing Manufacture

References: 

1.   Peyton, B., Hudson, Guide to Apparel Manufacturing, Blackwell Scientific

      Publications, 1988.

2.  Stephens, Gini., Fashion Concept to Consumer, Prentice Hall International,

     New Jersey ,1999

3.  David J. Tylor, Carr & Lantham’s, Technology of Clothing Manufacturing

Academic Year: 
2019-20
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