The garment manufacturing process involved a number of processes from order receiving to dispatching shipment of the finished garments. A process flow chart helps to understand how raw materials are moved from one process to another process until raw materials are transformed into the desired product (garments).
Image: Garment finishing section
It is noted that a process flow chart made for the garment manufacturing processes will vary based on manufacturing facility and product types. As some companies do the whole process in a single plant when others do production jobs and other auxiliary processes are outsourced.
Based on the present apparel industry, garment manufacturing processes are categorized as
- Pre-Production Processes - The pre-production process includes sampling, sourcing of raw materials, Approvals, PP meetings, etc. Read this for further reading on pre-production processes.
- Production processes - Production processes are cutting, sewing, quality checking, etc.
- Post-production processes - thread trimming, pressing, checking, folding and packing, shipment inspection, etc.
Instead of making a single process flow chart, I have made one chart for major processes and two separate charts for cutting room processes, and finishing processes for detailed process charts.
Chart-1. Garment manufacturing process flow chart (major processes)
Chart-2. Cutting Room Process Flow Chart
Chart-3. Finishing Process Flow Chart
I hope you find the process flow helpful to understand how garments are processed in a garment factory.
