AIM Garments Quality Assurance Procedure
Introduction:
AIM Garments is committed to adhering to the highest quality standards in the garment industry. In order to achieve the goal of providing world-class workmanship and defect-free merchandise, AIM Garments has set forth a comprehensive quality control auditing procedure to ensure that no defective garments leave our factory.
Effective immediately, AIM Garments shall assure quality of its finished goods by inspection for defects conforming to the ISO 2859-1 standard. AIM Garments requires all finished goods to pass an AQL inspection level 4.0. The auditing procedure is outlined below:
Sampling Procedure:
End-line inspections will be put in place to provide feedback to the quality of workmanship within the assembly line. End-line quality inspectors are responsible for notifying the assembly line supervisor when the number of defects per batch size has reached an unacceptable limit set forth below.
- Quality control inspectors will inspect 100% output goods.
- Defected goods are physically separated from acceptable goods.
- Each batch is accepted or rejected according to the following sampling plan:
- Normal Sampling Plan
- For batch size of 20 - 31 pieces
- Batch will be rejected if there are 3 or more defect pieces
- For batch size of 32 - 49 pieces
- Batch will be rejected if there are 4 or more defected pieces
- Tightened Sampling Plan
- For batch size of 20-31 pieces
- Batch will be rejected if there are 2 or more defected pieces
- For batch size of 32-49 pieces
- Batch will be rejected if there are 3 or more defected pieces
- The inspector will switch sampling plan from normal to tightened if there are two rejected batch for every 5 consecutive batches.
- Example: For batch number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, batch number 2 and batch number 4 was rejected. The Endline inspector is responsible for notifying the assembly line supervisor of unacceptable level of defects. Tightened Sampling plan will be put in place.
- The inspector will switch sampling plan from tightened to normal if five consecutive batches have been considered inspection.
- Example: For batch number 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 all batches were considered acceptable. The endline inspector shall notify the assembly line supervisor that goods are acceptable and shall switch to normal sampling procedure.
A final inspection shall take place after the production is complete and before the goods are finished and packed. Final inspection shall also follow the normal guidelines above. Rejected batches will be physically sorted out and only acceptable goods shall be permitted to enter the finishing area.