Clothing Quality Inspector Food, Wood & Garment Trades Workers
SaveWhat Does a Clothing Quality Inspector Do?
Clothing quality inspectors inspect manufactured components, ready-made garments in order to ensure compliance with quality standards and to identify defects or deviations from specifications and in order to classify them according to their quality. They inspect, test products, parts and materials for conformity with specifications and standards. They ensure all work produced meets or exceeds the department's quality standards.
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Manufacturing Of Made-up Textile Articles
Manufacturing processes in wearing apparel and made-up textiles. Different technologies and machinery involved in the manufacturing processes.
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Skills You Need to Become a Clothing Quality Inspector
Essential Skills
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EssentialManufacturing Of Made-up Textile Articles knowledge
Manufacturing processes in wearing apparel and made-up textiles. Different technologies and machinery involved in the manufacturing processes.
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EssentialApparel Manufacturing Technology knowledge
Traditional and advanced apparel manufacturing technologies. Technologies including processes, machinery, etc. in order to compile and design pattern requirements, contribute to product costing and finalise assembly sequence and quality assurance …
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EssentialManufacturing Of Wearing Apparel knowledge
The processes used to fabricate wearing apparel and the different technologies and machinery involved in the manufacturing processes.
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EssentialStandard Sizing Systems For Clothing knowledge
Standard sizing systems for clothing developed by different countries. Differences among the systems and standards of different countries, the development of the systems according to the evolution of the shape …
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EssentialCheck Quality Of Products In Textile Production Line skill
Check characteristics of textile products like yarns, woven, knitted, braided, tufted or nonwoven textiles, finished cloths, ready-make-garments and determine the product quality along different stages of the textiles or clothing …
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EssentialCoordinate Manufacturing Production Activities skill
Coordinate manufacturing activities based on production strategies, policies and plans. Study details of the planning such as expected quality of the products, quantities, cost, and labour required to foresee any …
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EssentialCreate Patterns For Garments skill
Create patterns for garments using pattern making softwares or by hand from sketches provided by fashion designers or product requirements. Create patterns for different sizes, styles, and components of the …
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EssentialDistinguish Accessories skill
Distinguish accessories in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate accessories based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.
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EssentialDistinguish Fabrics skill
Distinguish fabrics in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate fabrics based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.
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EssentialEvaluate Garment Quality skill
Evaluating stitching, construction, attachments, fasteners, embellishments, shading within the garment; evaluating pattern continuity, matching; evaluating tapes and linings.
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EssentialInspect Wearing Apparel Products skill
Inspecting and testing products, parts and materials for conformity with specifications and standards; discarding or rejecting products, materials, and equipment not meeting specifications.
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EssentialMake Technical Drawings Of Fashion Pieces skill
Make technical drawings of wearing apparel, leather goods and footwear including both technical and engineering drawings. Use them to communicate or to convey design ideas and manufacturing details to pattern …
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EssentialOperate Computerised Control Systems skill
Operate electronic or computerised control panels to monitor and optimise processes, and to control process start-up and shut-downs. Monitor and inspect equipment and systems to detect malfunctions.
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EssentialOperate Garment Manufacturing Machines skill
Operate and monitor machines which make miscellaneous wearing apparel articles. Operate and monitor machines that fold cloth into measured length, and measure size of pieces.
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EssentialPrepare Production Prototypes skill
Prepare early models or prototypes in order to test concepts and replicability possibilities. Create prototypes to assess for pre-production tests.
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EssentialGrade Patterns For Wearing Apparel skill
Grading patterns by performing processes of resizing initial patterns in order to create nest of patterns to fit various body types and sizes.
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EssentialPerform Process Control In The Wearing Apparel Industry skill
Perform process control to wearing apparel products in order to assure mass production in an uninterrupted production manner. Control processes to ensure that processes are predictable, stable and consistent.
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OptionalCAD For Garment Manufacturing knowledge
Softwares of computer aided design for garment manufacturing which allow create 2 or 3 dimensional drawings.
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OptionalProperties Of Fabrics knowledge
The influence of chemical composition and molecular arrangement of yarn and fibre properties and fabric structure on the physical properties of textile fabrics; the different fibre types, their physical and …
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