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    Quality Control for Fashion Start-ups with Chris Walker: Overseas Apparel Production Series, #3
    Quality Control for Fashion Start-ups with Chris Walker: Overseas Apparel Production Series, #3
    Quality Control for Fashion Start-ups with Chris Walker: Overseas Apparel Production Series, #3
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    Quality Control for Fashion Start-ups with Chris Walker: Overseas Apparel Production Series, #3

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    Controlling the quality of apparel manufacturing when producing in countries like Vietnam can make or break your brand.  I explain basic quality control concepts, share practical advice and introduce you to quality control companies that can save your shirt.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherChris Walker
    Release dateAug 26, 2019
    ISBN9781393215691
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      Quality Control for Fashion Start-ups with Chris Walker - Chris Walker

      Quality Control

      Quality Control

      For Fashion Start-ups

      Chris Walker

      Chris Walker

      Copyright © 2019 by Chris Walker

      All rights reserved.

      No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the author, except for the use of brief quotations in a book review.

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      My Best Advice

      If you are new to producing apparel overseas then I recommend you learn and memorize the AQL system and the 4 Point Fabric Inspection system which I describe later. I recommend you do your own audit of a factory and make your own judgement about the factory owner’s integrity. When you have paid the deposit, and production is underway, pay a professional quality control company to do an inspection when 10% of the production is done and again when 80% is completed. You will pay no more than $250 for each inspection - $500. This $500 investment could save you from losing 1,000s of dollars in the case that you receive the goods and they are not sellable.

      Table of Contents

      My Best Advice

      Two QC Experts in Vietnam

      Choose QC or QA

      Get to Know the Owner Well

      Lessons Learned from Interviewing Factory Owners

      Evaluate the Factory

      What to Inspect

      When to inspect

      Use AQL

      Use the 4 Point Fabric Inspection Method

      List of Fabric Tests

      Digitization of Quality Control

      Fixing Defects. Rework Services.

      Don’t Let Your Guard Down

      Take Aways

      Appendix I: Quality control Companies in Vietnam

      Appendix II: Evolution of Quality Control

      About the Author

      What’s the Next Step?

      Two QC Experts in Vietnam

      Frank and Prem are both apparel production professionals who spent years in the sewing lines checking production and solving problems. They helped me write this book and I am forever grateful. I have been working with them since 2017. Frank has 20+ years experience managing a quality control company in Vietnam and Prem has 15+ years experience managing quality assurance for sportswear production in India, Oman, Jordan and Vietnam. If you need help in Vietnam for quality control or just down to earth advice from generous, ethical and experienced persons then contact them and ask for help. If they don’t know the answer, they can

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