Customer happiness is the primary goal of all businesses. Customers demand greater variety at lower costs while maintaining good quality and speed of delivery as their awareness grows. This difficulty exacerbates the globe after the growing rivalry. As a result, businesses in Pakistan seek methods to spend less while generating more. Apparel manufacturers are tried-and-true players for dealing with this difficulty.
Textile Industry in Pakistan
Pakistan’s textile industry serves as the country’s backbone, contributing significantly to exports and jobs. It accounts for 8.5 percent of GDP and employs more than 40 percent of the manufacturing workforce (APTMA, 2015). Pakistan manufactures a wide range of textile goods and is one of the top five producers and consumers of cotton and the eighth exemplary exporter of textile products worldwide.
The United States and the European Union drive the demand for textile goods, while Pakistan, Bangladesh, China, and India dominate the market internationally. Among them, Pakistan’s part in the overall volume (US$18 trillion per year) of global textile commerce is considerable but not more than one percent.
Implementation Of Quality Tools In Apparel Manufacturing
Quality tools implementation in apparel manufacturing can assist this industry in emerging from this competition and regaining its place in the worldwide market. Garments manufacturers can implement standardized practices to enhance customer satisfaction and boost manufacturers’ efficiency and effectiveness.
Pakistan’s textile industry has already made little progress. Most work has concentrated on a single set of textile tools with no holistic strategy. The National Productivity Organization (NPO), with the help of the Asian Productivity Organization (APO) Japan and in partnership with the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Authority (SMEDA) has established many training sessions to promote the garment manufacturing ideas.
The ultimate difficulty has been to shift senior management’s thinking and raise knowledge. Textile principles at each stage of the textile manufacturing process. To sustain the view, we have listed a few analytic gears here.
Identification Analysis
- Fabric construction
- Fabric weight
- Fibre analysis
- Yarn size
- Fabric count
Colour Fastness Analysis
- Chlorine bleach
- Crocking
- Laundering / dry cleaning
- Light
- Non-Chlorine bleach
- Ozone and burnt gas fume (indigo &white )
- Perspiration (lining or skin contact )
Strength & Performance Analysis
- Bursting(knit)
- Pile retention (corduroy)
- Pilling
- Pocket strength
- Seam strength / stretching
- Snap/zipper strength
- Stretch and recovery for elastic item
- Tear(woven)
- Tensile (woven)
Label Verification
- Care labeling
- Copyright verification
- Country of origin
- Fiber content
- Stuffed articles label
Washability
- Appearance in laundering (e.g., self-staining, torque, trim/ garment compatibility, puckering, raspy hand, pill/ fuzz, skew, trim/ seam durability, etc…)
- Azo colorants (European requirements)
- Dimensional stability
- Flammability
- Other required tests:
- pH(washed items)
Additional Analysis for Infant Garment
- Children safety construction review
- Colorfastness to saliva (under 36months)
- Formaldehyde content
- Heavy metal
- Lead content on surface paints
The Seven Basic Quality Control Tools for Garment Industry
Quality management tools and techniques are abilities, practical ways, or procedures that may be utilized to complete a specific job associated with quality improvement projects.
- Histogram. so define the simplicity and versatility of the textile sector. It can help manufacturers and distributors to deliver reasonable pricing and marketing plans.
- Check Sheet (Tally Sheet). Quality tools can help the garment industry to predict upcoming risks before time. What else could benefit us if we know the potential risk? We can save our businesses this way.
- Cause-and-Effect Diagram. Once we know the risk, cause & effect diagram can help us identify the causes that contribute to an effect overproduction or sales of garments.
- Pareto Chart. Similar to cause & effect, this tool is best to segregate the problems, expected in the textile industry, along with their causes.
- Scatter Diagram.Since at this stage any business can definitely know the reasons behind the potential risk. Therefore, manufacturers can identify the area of improvements in their supply chain and distributions through observation.
- Control Chart. Garment business operators can see when something is going wrong or may go wrong with their productions. This stage will help so that mitigate the risks and predict the future performance of their productions. If it shows losses in businesses, one must cater for securing its process through analysis of garments.
- So the quality tool can regulate and control individual and group behaviors and relationships. With this tool, a textile can ensure to have better relations with distributors. Not only this will generate revenue but it will also help in maximizing garments’ demand in both Pakistan and the international market.
Conclusion
Apparel manufacturing should promote concentrated training among workers to grasp the textile industry better in Pakistan. so they must spend in staff training and ensure that employees are involved in the entire process. They should give special attention to employees resistant to change their mindset. After that, they should compensate them for their efforts.
Finally, companies should be encouraged to compare their systems to those of excellent organizations. This practice can aid in bringing about quick changes in Pakistan’s textile industry performance.
