APPAREL PRODUCTION AND QUALITY CONTROL

Paper Code: 
GPM-501
Credits: 
3
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

To understand the importance of standards and labels in an apparel industry 

9.00
Unit I: 
Apparel Industry

 

  • Spreading
    • Marker types & calculations
    • Spreading process & equipments
  • Cutting department
    • Machinery
    • Fabric laying
    • Marker preparation
    • Sorting
    • Numbering and bundling
  •  Fusing department
    • Importance and selection of fusing
    • Fusing methods and machinery
    • CAM
9.00
Unit II: 
Production department
  •  
    • Selection of production system
    • Production planning
    • Different types of sewing machines
    • Parts and functions of following sewing machines:
    • Single lock machine
    • Double needle
    • Over lock
    • Button hole
    • Buttoning
  • Formation of stitch- Types of stitches and seams
  • Attachment used in sewing machine
9.00
Unit III: 
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

 

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
  • 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. Solinger, Jacob., Apparel Manufacturing Handbook, VanNostra and Reinhold Company, 1980.
  2. Amita,A. Stamper, Sue Humphries Stamp., Evaluating Apparel Quality, Fairchild publications, New York,1986

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

4.   Stephens, Gini., Fashion Concept to Consumer, Prentice Hall International, New     
                  Jersey ,1999

References: 

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

      Publications, 1988.

Academic Year: 
2014-15
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