An Introduction to Quality Control for the Apparel Industry (Quality and Reliability)

This easy-to-follow reference explores all aspects of quality for the clothing and apparel industry...detailing the fundamental principles as well as more specific topics in the quality profession.

Presenting quality as an overall business strategy and management function, this book describes how to build quality into products; it shows how to evaluate the quality of products; it explains fabric hand, textile testing developments that have affected apparel manufacturing quality control in Japan: considers the Textile Apparel Linkage Council, which is influencing U.S. quality control in fabric inspection; it treats sizing and continuous sampling and includes sketches of garment defects; covers starting a quality control program using seven tools of quality control, ISO 9000 series standards, and current concepts in quality management.

Providing more than 600 literature citations, 'An Introduction to Quality Control for the Apparel Industry' is a practical source for quality control and reliability managers, supervisors, executives, inspectors, and technicians.