GarmentFlow ERP · Quality
Garment quality control and AQL inspection
Two customers rarely accept the same thing. One will take a variance the other rejects outright, and the inspector on the line is usually the person deciding which. The point of what follows is to move that decision off the floor and into the specification, and to find problems while they can still be fixed.
Inline quality
Checked at the operation, not only at the end
Quality audits run during production, at the operation. Each inspection records the defect rate and a result — accepted, accepted with deviation, rejected or held — against the standard the order was set to. A problem found at the third operation is a problem that hasn't yet been sewn into two thousand pieces.
IQ Level
One operation, two customers, two standards
IQ Level — forgive the pun — stands for INDOPAR Quality: an in-house methodology for a calibrated quality standard. It sets what's acceptable for a given customer or order, and the inspections carried out on the floor are measured against it. The same operation can be checked to a different standard for two customers without anyone having to remember which.
Before it ships
Final control, with hold and release
Control on what's about to leave, against the same standard the order was set to, with hold and release so a batch doesn't ship while it's still in question.
Root cause
Finding the cause, not just the count
Defects are marked directly on the fashion flat the designer drew, which builds a heatmap of where faults cluster — a seam, an operation, a line. Hotspots read by operation, unit, season, category and severity. A non-conformance report carries the five-why, containment, and the corrective and preventive actions, and stays open until someone closes it.
Cost
The cost shows up in the rejection rate
The argument for inline inspection is a cost argument. Rework and scrap are reported per batch and per operation, defects are counted where they happen, and supplier quality ratings are built out of the incoming inspections you were already doing. A defect caught at the third operation costs a fraction of one caught at final audit.
35 → 22 defects per hundred
First-round inline inspection at INDOPAR, since moving off paper. Final control now runs 2 to 4 per hundred — the leak that's left after inline catches the rest.
Connected to the rest
Quality is inseparable from the floor it happens on. The inspections come off the same batch cards production scans, the measurements come from the tech pack design drew, and the rework and scrap land in costing as what the defect actually cost.
A few we get asked
We already inspect.
Then the data exists — it's on paper, where it can't show you a pattern.
Our customer has their own standard.
That's what IQ Level is for. Set it per customer.
Won't operators hide defects?
Recording one takes a few seconds at the operation. Hiding it takes longer.
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