Manufacturing sequence of garments

Sketch of a particular garment including its design features is essential on paper Sample garment are produced and verified with its sketch Could be done manually or with the software, p

Fabric Spreading Marker Making Lay Planning

Cutting Numbering sewing

Idea Generation

► The process by which new

DESIGNS are deliberately produced

► Fashion designers are

assigned for this process

magazines like ColorTrends,

Color Decoder etc

► Spring/Summer forecasted color: Coral

Idea Generation

Sketch of a particular garment including its design features is essential on paper

Sample garment are

produced and verified with its sketch

Could be done manually or

with the software, popular

software is kaledo style of

Lectra

Sketch

Sketch

Sketch

Pattern design

Hard paper copy of each

component of a garment of exact size and shape

Pattern also include seam allowance, shrinkage of the fabric trimming allowance, dart etc

Could be done manually or with the help of a computer

Pattern Design

Usually done by a very

efficient and technically sound person

Sample Garment

Sample Garment

Production Pattern

Pattern of the approved

sample garments are used to make production pattern

Minor modification may done

on production pattern if buyer have any advice

Stepwise increase or

decrease of a master pattern

To get the pattern of all size from a master pattern

Could be done manually or with the help of software

Gradding

Gradded pattern

Lay Planning

Marker Making

All the pattern pieces for the required sizes are arranged in the paper in such a way so

that required number of

different size garments may

be produced with minimum

Marker Making

Marker

Process of arranging fabric on the cutting table to cut

Height of the lay is limited up

to maximum six inch

Could be done manually or

mechanically

Spreading

Normally straight knife cutting machine is used to cut out the garment component as per

exact dimension of the patternCare must be taken to avoid cutting defects

Cutting

Cutting (Auto)

Numbering and

bundling

Printing and embroidery

These two process are done before sewing

Both printing and embroidery requires flat form of the fabric for processing

Printing, Embroidery,

Interlining

Printing and Emb.

Cut pieces of fabric is

assembled in this process

Most important section of

garment manufacturing unit

Vertical line balancing is done

to produce a specific garmentNumbers of sewing machine per line varies from 15 to 60 depending on style of the

garment

Assembling

After passing through

inspection table, all garments are normally go through

thread sucking machine to

remove floating dirt,

measured and ironed/pressed

to remove unwanted crease and to improve smoothness

Thread sucker

Finishing

finishing

Finished garments are folded

as per buyers instruction,

inserted into the poly bags

and cartooned as advised by the buyer

Packing

Inspection (Final)

Final random inspection (FRI) is usually done by the buyer or the representative of buyer

After completion of packing FRI is conducted

AQL is applied in FRI as advised

by the buyer

Usually AQL 2.5 is applied in

Apparel inspection

Goods are delivered to the

shipping agents if goods are

passed in the FRI

Goods are sent to the finishing

section for repair/amend if goods are failed in the FRI

Final inspection