Common Garment Defects and How to Categorise Them

Learning objectives

• Name and group defects
• Feed defects to root cause faster

Steps

1. Fabric defects vs sewing defects vs finishing defects
2. Critical / major / minor definitions
3. Traffic light logging
4. Daily top-3 defect review

Factory example

A line where 60% of major defects were skip stitch — one machine timing fix eliminated most of them.

Common mistakes

• Logging without acting
• No defect definition training