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Advantages Of Four Point System For Fabric Inspection

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Why Four Point System preferable for Fabric Inspection?

The word of Inspection in garments engineering mainly identifies to the visual examination or review/scrutinize of raw materials (like fabric, accessories, trims etc). It is an imperative process in any apparel industry to keep away from rejects due to low fabric or accessories quality and precautions to remove unexpected loss/defects of finished goods.

The quality of a finished item in apparel industry is mostly controlled on the quality of fabric when it is collected as a roll from mills. Even it occupies 60/70 percent of total garments cost. Apparel industry should take some defensive actions to ensure quality full fabric is being used in their items and set up fabric inspection …show more content…

Even the most exceptional/excellence manufacturing methods cannot compensate for defective materials.
* Garments producer: Have to inspect minimum 10% per color or more of any consignment when they got and assess them based on a four-point system. By this process, they can minimize fabric related quality troubles before it moved to production.
* Fabric mill: Have to inspect 100% of finished goods; defects must be recorded for each roll.

Usually four methods may be followed for fabric inspection process.
1) Graniteville "78" system.
2) Dallas system.
3) 4 point system
4) 10 point system

But, above all 4 point system is most popular and broadly used as it is very simple to applicable, educate and learn. Let’s find a tiny description of 4 point inspection system below.
Fabric Inspection Process
To use this system someone has to know following procedure:
1) Vast idea on nature of fabric defects (how a defect looks and its appearance)
2) Fabric inspection method or preparation
3) Criteria of giving penalty points based on defects and defect length.
4) Calculation method of total penalty points for total defects found in a fabric roll or consignment.
5) A Check sheet or format for keeping data

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