Bulk Fabric Cutting Procedure in a Garments Industry.

Cutting section is a major department in garment industry. Cutting section does their job as per cutting & production plan according to shipment date. Whenever fabric received from fabric store to issue production line cutting section has to follow  so many steps. To ready issue for the production line cutting section has to follow the following steps.

For Buyer H&M, at first receive file, pattern, trim card, sample which are all approved by concern department Then,

Test Cutting:

1. Fabric should collect from the store department from pass fabric batch which is inspected by QC team for 50-100 pieces. Here, need to receive the trim card, worksheet, and assortment to check the fabric.
   
2. Prepare to cut each size two pieces and arrange issue to the production line.
3. After body (for pattern/measurement test) making, measurement is checked by quality head.
4. If ok, floor Production Manager will organize a per-production meeting.
5. Concern merchandiser, floor Production Manager, floor technician, pattern maker, material department, buyer quality all have to attend in this per-production meeting.
6. During per-production meeting, all have to review those size set samples to discuss regarding production obstacles and find a solution to smooth the production line. Then proceed for final cutting.

Bulk Cutting:

1. Make a cutting plan by cutting manager.
2. Receive cutting approval report from the quality department.
3. Make consumption and approved by concern merchandiser.
4. Make requisition slip to receive required fabric from the store department for bulk production.
5. Check fabric batch by 4 point check system. If ok, give permission to go bulk production.
6. Fabric is stored for relaxation.
7. Collect marker from CAD section.
8. Spreading & Cutting Lay. 
9. Bundling, numbering, panel inspection to issue the production line.
10. If need to arrange hit transfer, embroidery, fusing, printing etc. Please separate those cut panel bundle and send to concern department.

 Fig:  Cutting section

Re-cut and panel rejection replacement:

Cutting section has to collect reject part from QA team after panel inspection. Sometimes they have to replace sewing reject, printing reject or re-cut short quantity. If they require more fabric than approved consumption, then cutting team has to face concern merchandiser with actual fabric consumption for more fabric and has to provide proper document to erase short shipment.

Beside this, to do the above cutting section has to maintain some format and report to concern department regularly:

1. Consumption reports hard and soft copy.
2. Daily cutting report hard and soft copy.
3. Daily cutting variance report hard and soft copy.
4. Cutting plan hard and soft copy.
5. Lay sheet format (hard copy).
6. Cutting approval sheet (hard copy)
7. Panel inspection report (hard copy)
8. Re-cut request copy (hard copy)
9. Marker worksheet (hard copy)
10. Marker plot requisition (hard copy)
11. Sewing rejects slip
12. Reject fabric requisition slip
13. Delivery Challan book for printing, washing, embroidery, sewing etc.

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