Profession textile quality inspector

Textile quality inspectors ensure that the manufactured of textile products is compliant with predetermined specifications.

Personality Type

• Conventional / Realistic

Knowledge

• Textile measurement

  Textile measurement units, such as mommes, thread count (the degree of coarseness of a fabric), picks per inch (PPI) and ends per inch (EPI).

• Challenging issues in the textile industry

  The efficiency aims and environmental issues posed by challenges in the textile industry.

• Database quality standards

  Techniques and methods of estimation and evaluation of system quality and overall database quality, as well as the set quality standards and regulations.

• Data quality assessment

  The process of revealing data issues using ​quality indicators, measures and metrics in order to plan data cleansing and data enrichment strategies according to data quality criteria.

• Textile technologies

  Textile technologies to design, manufacture and evaluate the properties of textiles.

• Health and safety in the textile industry

  The requirements, rules and applications of health and safety measures in the textile industry.

Skills

• Check quality of products in textile production line

  Check characteristics of textile products like yarns, woven, knitted, braided, tufted or nonwoven textiles, finished cloths, ready-make-garments and determine the product quality along different stages of the textiles or clothing production line.

• Test physical properties of textiles

  Evaluating the physical properties of textiles by using testing methods, normally in accordance with a standard; it includes fibre identification and trouble shooting.

• Oversee quality control

  Monitor and assure the quality of the provided goods or services by overseeing that all the factors of the production meet quality requirements. Supervise product inspection and testing.

• Define data quality criteria

  Specify the criteria by which data quality is measured for business purposes, such as inconsistencies, incompleteness, usability for purpose and accuracy.

• Conduct textile testing operations

  Prepare for textile testing and evaluation, gathering the test samples, conducting and recording tests, validating data and presenting results.

• Maintain work standards

  Maintaining standards of work in order to improve and acquire new skills and work methods.

• Distinguish accessories

  Distinguish accessories in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate accessories based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.

• Control textile process

  Plan and monitor textile production to achieve control on behalf of quality, productivity and delivery time.

• Manage quality of leather throughout the production process

  Manage systems for the customer-focused organisation of leather production processes. It uses strategy, data, and effective communications to integrate the quality approach into the culture and activities of the company and also to achieve the organisation’s mission and goals.

• Distinguish fabrics

  Distinguish fabrics in order to determine differences among them. Evaluate fabrics based on their characteristics and their application in wearing apparel manufacturing.

• Ensure quality assurance standards for vehicles

  Implement and monitor the maintenance, repair and/or recondition of vehicles ensuring all quality assurance standards are met.

• Evaluate textile characteristics

  Evaluate textiles and their properties in order to manufacture products in conformity with specifications.

• Measure yarn count

  Be able to measure yarn length and mass to assess fineness of roving, sliver and yarn in different measuring systems.Also able to convert into the various numbering system such as tex, Nm, Ne, denier, etc.

Optional knowledge and skills

Source: Sisyphus ODB