FINAL INSPECTION

• Inspecting finished garments from the customers

point of view
– Size measurement
– Form fitting
• Live modeling (if necessary)
• Can be done before or after garments are packed
• Usually third party inspection by QA from buying
house before shipment
• Checking done based on measurement chart
Sample Measurement sheet / Spec sheet
 How much to inspect?
• Can we do away with inspection? – no
inspection
– Risk of defective material being put into process
– Labor, machine time is wasted
– Rework cost
– Loss of goodwill if defective garment reaches end
consumer
• Do we need 100% inspection?
– Prohibitive cost & time consuming
– Human inspection might falter even @ 100%
inspection
 Spot checking
• Compromise between no inspection and 100%
inspection
• Done randomly
• Not entirely effective in stopping defective
products from reaching consumers
 Arbitrary sampling
• Certain percent of a shipment is rejected
• Decision to accept / reject the entire shipment is
based on inspection results of that certain
percent
• This is a fixed percent regardless of the size of
shipment
• Most widely used 10% sampling
• Drawback: one fixed percent might not suit all
size of shipment
 Statistical sampling
• Also known as acceptance sampling
• Based on random sampling
• Need to know about
– Sample
– Lot or Batch
– Lot or Batch size
– Per cent defective
– AQL
 ASQC sample size code letters
Lot or Batch size Sample size code letter
2 to 8 A
9 to 15 B
16 to 25 C
26 to 50 D
51 to 90 E
91 to 150 F
151 to 280 G
281 to 500 H
501 to 1200 J
1201 to 3200 K
3201 to 10000 L
10001 to 35000 M
 Sampling plans
Sample Sample Acceptable Quality Level
size size 2.5 4.0 6.5 10.0
code
letter Ac Re Ac Re Ac Re Ac Re

A 2 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2
B 3 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2
C 5 0 1 0 1 0 1 1 2
D 8 0 1 1 2 1 2 2 3
E 13 1 2 1 2 2 3 3 4
F 20 1 2 2 3 3 4 5 6
G 32 2 3 3 4 5 6 7 8
H 50 3 4 5 6 7 8 10 11
J 80 5 6 7 8 10 11 14 15
K 125 7 8 10 11 14 15 21 22
L 200 10 11 14 15 21 22 21 22
M 315 14 15 21 22 21 22 21 22
 Advantages of statistical sampling
• No over inspection / under inspection
• Risk of making a wrong decision are known
and controllable
• Most practical and economical
• Flexible with regard to
– the amount of inspection to be done
– Product quality
– Importance of product