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Quality Control
• Inspect products after production
• Separate into firsts and seconds
• Expensive
Quality Assurance
• Quality is incorporated into the product during product
development, production and marketing
TESTING ANALYSIS
In any good dye house a Quality Control and Quality Assurance systems
should go hand in hand. The knowledge of QC operations should lead to the
formation of good QA systems.
Quality Assurance Elements:
In QA elements we should consider the quality of
all raw materials, right from the processing of
fabric or yarn to all the dyes and chemicals used
and in QC elements we should test the quality of
finished products for the required level of
standards. In both cases the following Textile
Testing Methods can be applied for.
j. Quality of Dyestuff:
Dyestuff properties and selection method for a combination
2. Quality of Basic Chemicals used and its concentration.
i Caustic soda – purity and concentration percentage
ii Soda Ash – purity and concentration
iii. Acetic Acid, Hydrochloric acid, Sulphuric acid, Oxalic acid – purity
and concentration
iv. Hydrogen Peroxide – purity and concentration
v. Common Salt – purity, hardness of a particular concentration
vi. Sodium Hypochlorite - concentration
3. Test for Iron and Copper in cotton fibre
1. Physical Properties:
a. Appearance – color and uniformity of finished yarn or fabric - visual
assessment only.
b. Tensile strength of finished yarn
c. CSP of finished yarn
d. Tear strength of finished fabric
e. GSM of fabric of finished
f. Shrinkage Test of Woven fabric and Knit fabric.
1. What is a Grey Scale and Staining Scale? How Fastness grading is done?
2. Fastness to Washing
3. Fastness to Crocking or Rubbing fastness
4. Fastness to water
5. Fastness to perspiration
6. Fastness to peroxide bleach
7. Fastness to Chlorine or Chlorinated Pool water fastness
8. Fastness to Mercerizing
9. Fastness to Hydrolysis
10. Fastness to Dry-cleaning
11. Fastness to light
12. Pilling Tests
13. What is whiteness Index
14. What is total color difference or DE
15. Method of Detecting Starch and PVA
16. Method of testing desizing efficiency
17. Measurement of Absorbency
18. Antimicrobial Tests
19. Flammability Test
Few test are as follows:
Flame resistance (fabric's ability to resist burning)
Crocking resistance (fabric's colorfastness)
Ultra-violet light resistance (fabric's resistance to fading)
Physical properties (fabric's resistance to pilling, seam slippage, and tearing)
Flame resistance
Tunnel Test:
Crocking resistance
Physical properties
Evaluates pilling, which occurs when loose fibers work to the surface after the
fabric is subjected to abrasion. Nylon bristles are used to rub the surface of the
fabric for a specific amount of time. The number of balls or pills that form on the
surface of the fabric are counted, and the fabric is rated accordingly.
Breaking Strength Test: