Statistical Quality Control Approach in Typical Garments Manufacturing Industry in Bangladesh: A Case Study

*Md. Mohibul Islam and **Md. Mosharraf Hossain

(SQC 15)

Abstract

Garments industry is the most important economic sector in Bangladesh. It earns a lot of foreign currency annually by exporting garments. To export garments in global market generally it faces high competition on regarding on the product price with comparing to neighboring countries. To survive in the global market and proceeds, it is now urgently necessary to manufacture the garments in most economical way. There are various cost factors that are related with manufacturing garments among them quality inspection cost is one of them. Traditionally it is noted that most of the garments factory in Bangladesh is practicing100% end line quality inspection to maintain the quality. It is exercised both of the manufacturing section and the finishing section. For this 100% inspection there are needed both time and a large number of quality inspectors who are consumed high currency. In this case study a sampling based statistical quality control system is proposed in finishing section to eliminate 100% inspection by sampling based inspection.

Keywords: Statistical quality controls, control chart, run test, sampling, inspection and competitive global market.