GARMENT FINISHING PROCESS AND EQUIPMENTS

PRESENTED BY: AKANSHA GUPTA DEVIKA RASTOGI ISHA MILAP SANSKRITI VARMA

OUTLINE
-FINISHING THREAD CUTTING

WASHING
PRESSING MEASUREMENT CHECKING TAGGING FOLDING AND PACKING

FINISHING
After the garments have been sewn, they go through a finishing process. Scientifically designed to remove all loose and excess thread and dust particles from finished garments and textile products, through a specially designed suction operation simultaneously creating an oscillation, similar to dusting of garments. The garments are inspected for quality, individually trimmed of excess backing material, then folded and packaged ready for shipping to the end user.

GARMENT FINISHING PROCESS

THREAD SUCKING MACHINE

Thread Sucking Machine is quite innovative products collecting all the lose threads from the garments. With its extraordinary features, it saves your valuable time and energy and reduced labour cost. Above all, it accumulates the loose threads inside and can be used for a large variety of garment.

HYDRO EXTRACTOR
Hydro-extractor is equipment that goes between dryer and washer. It has self balancing operation that is deigned to draw out the suds, dirt and maximum water from laundry leaving it almost dry and save energy and makes more profit.

WASHER EXTRACTOR
Washer Extractor is fully automatic Machine that extracts water from the garment. It is a programmable system that ensures highly reliable and safe operations. It is userfriendly and reduces cost of labour and time.

TUMBLE DRIER
Tumble drier is a convenient way to dry clothes. It is quick and effective with the bonus of preventing creasing.

PRESSING
Ironing and pressing equipment shapes the semi finished garment by bringing the fabric fibers into a highly elastic state and then deforming and setting them.

Need for Ironing/Pressing To smooth away unwanted creases and crush marks ,these are normally caused by bad operator handling. To make creases where the designs of the garment requires them:- for e.g. creases in trousers and skirts.

To mold the garment to the contour of the body

Ironing: It is the process of using an iron to remove wrinkles from damp, washable clothing. Heat and pressure are used to flatten the fabric. Ironing is done with a gliding or sliding motion. Elements of Pressing

Heat
Steam (Moisture) Pressure

Vacuum

CLASSIFICATION OF GARMENT

PRESSING EQUIPMENT
Pre-Design Garment Pressing Equipment

Collar and Lapel Garment Pressing equipment

Jacket Garment Pressing Equipment

Sleeve and Arm Garment Pressing Equipment

Miniature Garment Pressing Equipment

IRON TABLE
The decisive factor for an ironing station is the air flow through the garment to cool the fabric and set the ironing result. Ironing tables are used with an iron. The textiles are ironed between the heat and steam of the iron and the padded board.

JACKET SEAM IRONING STATION

TROUSER SEAM IRONING STATION STANDARD

TROUSER SEAM IRONING STATION WITH CHAIN

VACUUM IRONING TABLE

These are user Friendly, elegant design Vacuum Ironing Tables for higher productivity.

For different application, it is available in various sizes.

Its highlighting attributes are convenience of use and foot-pedal and adjustable height.

PORTABLE STEAM IRONING SYSTEM

The portable stream Ironing Systems is versatile and aesthetically designed equipment.

It is light in weight so it is easy to carry and has a sleek look.

Also, it is corrosion resistant power thus it makes a best for your ironing purpose.

TAGGING
The tag is attached to a seam or brand label by the ergonomic hand-held applicator using a push and twist movement. The laser-etching is clear, resists fading and wear and can withstand industrial washing temperatures and dry cleaning. The tags can also be easily removed if the clothing is worn out

FOLDING AND PACKAGING

Folding and packaging of a product is the most essential once when the production is done.

Folding a product in a such a way that it doesnt crease or open while shipping us the main task of folding and packaging.
Packaging should be good enough so that your goods arrive intact and undamaged with your buyer.

The kinds of packaging are : Transport or export packaging is the outermost layer of packaging and is designed to protect your goods during transit. Examples include wooden crates, metal drums and plastic shrink wrapping. Outer packaging is an intermediate layer of packaging, which often also serves a retail promotion purpose.

Sales packaging is the immediate layer of packaging around your goods- the packaging that remains when the goods reach their end-user.
These three types of packaging work like Russian dolls each layer of packaging is complete on its own terms, but contained withing a further layer of outer packaging.

QUALITY CHECKING
How defects come in garments? Lot of people and machines are involved in producing a garment. There is an obvious chance of making few faulty garments in a batch due to faulty machine or human intervention.

The defective pieces can be corrected by repairing or changing defective parts. But repair work costs money and time.
These both increase inefficiency of the company. And if one defect passed through initial process without detecting and correction and process goes on then at the later stages repair cost will be much more than detecting it in initial stage. Production process starts after receiving of fabrics and end after dispatching of packed garments. Generally export house put quality check points at the end of each process to ensure that only quality pieces move to the next process.

DEPARTMENT WISE QUALITY CHECKING

FABRIC STORE
In the fabric store fabric is being checked before issuing it to cutting department.

In general not all the fabric is checked. Usually 10% of fabrics are checked for good fabric suppliers. For power loom fabric and printed fabric 100% checking is done.
Fabrics are checked in flat table, flat table with light box or on fabric checking machine. 4 point system for fabric inspection is used to measure the quality level of the incoming fabric.

TRIMS & ACCESSORY

Trims quality is also very important for having a quality garment. Trims inspection is done randomly against the given standards, like color matching. But for trims and accessories quantity checking is essential.

CUTTING ROOM
It is said that cutting is the heart of production. If cutting is done well then chances of occurring defects in the following processes comes down. In cutting room, check points are - i) marker checking - ii) cut part audit - iii) bundle checking

PRINTING
Printing is not a compulsory process. If printing is done in fabric form then printing is being checked in fabric store. For knits garment, maximum printing is done in cut panels.
So before issuing cuttings to sewing department, each panel is being checked properly. Defects that are found here is print placement, color matching, misprint or print overlapping or shade variation.

EMBROIDERY
Like printing embroidery also is not a compulsory process. If there is embroidery work in the garment panels then 100% inspection is done before issuing to sewing.

SEWING DEPARTMENT
Checkpoints in the sewing departments are as following:

Inline inspection
Roaming inspection

Traffic light inspection system

End of line inspection /table checking

FINISHING DEPARTMENT
Check points in finishing department consists : Initial finishing inspection: checking done prior to pressing of the garment at finishing room is known as initial finishing.

- Final finishing Inspection: After pressing garments are again checked and passed for tagging and packing.

- Internal final audit: After garments are packed up to certain quantity, quality control team, do audit of packed garments. This process is carried out to ensure that before handing over shipment to buyer.

If the completed work is being checked at each process and defective pieces are corrected before handing to the next process than at the end of production there is very little chance to have a defective at final inspection stage.

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