This Easy-To-Follow Reference Book Explores All Aspects Of Quality For The Clothing And Apparel Industry - Detailing The Fundamental Principles As Well As The Latest Topics In The Quality Profession.This Book Is Further Refinement Of The Work Published Entitled An Introduction To Quality Control For The Apparel Industry By The American Society For Quality In September 1992.Presenting Quality As An Overall Business Strategy And Management Function, Managing Quality In The Apparel Industry Explains What Is Quality, Why Quality Is Important, And Describes How To Build Quality Into Products, Shows How To Evaluate Quality Of All The Components That Go Into Making Garments, Explains How To Measure The Cost Of Quality Or Rather Poor Quality, And Shows How To Begin To Manage Quality.Providing Hundreds Of Excerpts, Managing Quality In The Apparel Industry Is A Practical Source For Quality Control Managers, Supervisors, Inspectors, Technicians, And Executives; And Upper-Level Undergraduates And Graduate Students In These Disciplines.

Quality characterisation of apparel entails dimensional and colour fastness properties, durability and surface appearance of apparels along with mandatory regulation on flammability, fibre composition and care labels. Safety issues for different accessories in children garment and safety review of typical garments have been thoroughly covered in this book. In this second edition, a new chapter has been introduced on characterisation of varieties of washed denim fabrics. Quality characterisation of different finished leather and performance requirements of different leather and suede garments have also been added to the second edition of the book for a wider coverage of the area of quality characterisation of apparels. The novelty of this book is the way the topics are arranged on actual practical way in which apparel manufacturing units, buying offices and retailers are facing day-to-day challenges in different activities in their business. This will help the apparel business community to avoid quality related surprises and cut down rejections. The book would be of immense use for textile/ garment manufacturers, buying offices, retailers and the educational cluster of apparel/fashion.

This user-friendly guide to evaluating apparel quality presents the roles of product designers, manufacturers, merchandisers, testing laboratories, and retailers from product inception through the sale of goods, to ensure quality products that meet customer expectations. Bubonia provides an overview of apparel production, with emphasis on quality characteristics and cues, consumer influences and motivations impacting purchasing decisions, and the relationship of apparel manufacturing and production processes, cost, price point and the quality level of an apparel product. A key aspect of the book is the focus on both U.S. and International standards and regulations required for apparel analysis, performance, labeling requirements and safety regulations. The text is highly illustrated with images of stitch and seam types plus photos of their uses in actual garments, providing students with the tools needed to skillfully evaluate and critique quality elements in apparel and textile products. Key Features ~ Supplementary Apparel Quality Lab Manual (sold separately) includes hands-on lab activities and projects that simulate real-world garment analysis and material testing ~ Industry Scenario boxes present case studies highlight real world situations such as the Lululemon recall and the environmental impact of apparel manufacturing ~ Provides an illustrated guide to ASTM stitch and seam types Teaching Resources ~ Instructor's Guide with Test Bank ~ PowerPoint presentations for each chapter PLEASE NOTE: Purchasing or renting this ISBN does not include access to the STUDIO resources that accompany this text. To receive free access to the STUDIO content with new copies of this book, please refer to the book + STUDIO access card bundle ISBN 9781501395338. STUDIO Instant Access can also be purchased or rented separately on BloomsburyFashionCentral.com.

The role of quality assurance is to ensure that once a specification has been agreed, every product and every production run meets that standard. The Fundamentals of Quality Assurance in the Textile Industry describes how quality professionals in the apparel industry coordinating with overseas factories can ensure excellence. The author explains what tools are required and how to manage products from style conception to finished production and the methods used to track and evaluate samples and production at each stage of the critical path. This book reinforces the concept that quality assurance must become an integral part of the business and details crucial procedures that have been adopted internationally.

Textile Quality Assurance is the process of designing, producing, evaluating, and checking products to determine if they meet the desired quality level of a company's target market. Quality Assurance for Textiles and Apparel, second edition, reflects the industry's best practice and most practical efforts to provide products of a consistent quality to meet customer's needs. With updated information on technological advances, the second edition emphasizes the importance of incorporating product quality from the merchandising and design stages through production, delivery and retailing. Features · Discussion of body scanning as it relates to assessing body shape, sizing, and fit · Current information about standard test methods, documents, and practices · Student activities and review questions at the end of each chapter Instructors, contact your Sales Representative for access to Instructor's Materials.

Numerous clothing industries face highly dynamic environments, and growth in this environment depends upon both external and internal factors. External factors are represented by aggressive competition and volatile product demand. Internally, the industry must face an increasingly shorter life cycle of the product and the need to innovate both product and organizational development. The competitive advantage of the industry lies in its ability to design a value-creating system based on the management of both external and internal relationships. The successful management of these relationships relies not only on successful customer relationship management but also on effective product supply and demand upkeep. Management and Inter/Intra Organizational Relationships in the Textile and Apparel Industry provides emerging research exploring relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research underlining the complexity of management applications within the textile industry. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as consumer relationships, cultural identity, and organizational culture, this book is ideally designed for researchers, academicians, professionals, and students working in various disciplines including management, industrial organization, organizational behavior, human resource management, decision science, design science, and information and communication. Moreover, the book will provide insights and support executives and managers of the textile and apparel industry concerned with the ethic design, contamination, and the management relationships with workers, customers, suppliers, the community, and organizational development.