Abstract:

Our position as an export-oriented country in textile, leads us to be more careful about quality control. In the textile industry, production takes place as a result of successive processes. The result of a process, starting from the raw material, shows itself in yarn, weaving, finishing, dyeing and finally ready-made clothing units. In every process, it is necessary to carry out the studies related to quality control carefully and completely, to catch the errors in the process, and to take action and precautions. In this study, yarn dyed shirt fabric containing 70% cotton and 30% linen, which was applied finishing operations in a textile mill, was selected. Opening, singeing, washing, drying, chemical finishing in the stenter (silicon softener, anti-crease and water repellency), calendering, condensation and sanforizing processes were applied to this fabric, respectively. In the process controls of this fabric, 31 improprieties were observed in a total of 1343 controls, and with the Pareto analysis, it was revealed that the most of these improprieties were the result of wet waiting of the fabric during processes, while the others were caused by non-rotation problems in rotations, chamber heat problems and tearing as a result of carelessness. In the tests carried out in quality control, non-shrinkage and dirt-oil problems were observed. It has been concluded that since the results of these improprieties occur in quality control, there are root-cause improprieties that are directly affected the fabric quality. So that by solving the impropriety at its source, that is, during the process, it will be prevented from moving to the next stages and causing quality problems.

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