Smarter Operations for Apparel
AQL sampling, inline audits, defect classification and CAPA.
5 published articles
A quality manager used to be able to walk into a morning meeting and say "we had a rough day yesterday, quite a few defects." Nobody challenges that sentence, and nobody can act…
Every second, somewhere in the world, someone puts on a garment that was cut, sewn and finished in Bangladesh. Behind that ordinary moment sits an export industry worth tens of…
The morning of a buyer's audit has a particular kind of tension to it. The floor gets an extra sweep, the supervisors quietly double-check their folders, and everyone knows that…
Knowing your DHU number, covered in Part 3, tells a factory where it stands today. It says nothing about how a factory with a DHU of 15 actually becomes a factory with a DHU of 5,…
After reading this, a QA manager or inspector can pick the correct inspection level, derive the sample size and accept/reject numbers for any lot size, and defend a pass/fail decision using the ISO 2859-1 switching rules instead of guesswork.
