QUALITY CONTROL
(Cont'd. from page 1)
The work of the regular Quality Control
Department is supplemented by the tem
porary Quality Control Committee. The
regular Quality Control procedure pro
vides for on-the-spot inspection of
each stocking by every operator handl
ing the stocking, with sub-standard
work being reported to the department
head responsible for the deficiency.
Provisions are made also for statisti
cal reporting and classifying quality
defects.
Beginning in the knitting depart
ment, a dozen or two of socks are
checked at the machine. Employees
from the finishing room will look par
ticularly for defects which are cur
rently showing up in the finished stage.
Seamers will put special emphasis on
that portion of the stocking which af
fects the seaming process. Boarders,
likewise, will more quickly notice those
items which are encountered in the
boarding department. This does not
mean that the members of the Quality
Control Committee look for only those
things affecting their jobs, but they are
more likely to notice them first.
When a defect is located in the
knitting room, it is reported to the
supervisor and is discussed with the
knitters and fixers on the machines.
Check Knitting
In the picture above, Paul Shore is
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discussing with Barbara George, knit
ter, a streak found in a sock, style 1710.
Barbara had found and laid out the
defective stocking which was caused by
a bad sinker.
While in the knitting room, Helen
Wilson noticed long corners in the toes
of style 1961 which was making seam
ing difficult and causing "rabbit ears"
on some of the seamed toes.
Margaret Jones had been finding
some misplaiting in the finishing room
Look For Misplaiting
in style 1871, so, naturally, she and
Helen Wilson, in the picture above,
checked several dozens. Plaiting was
found good on this particular set of
machines.
Check For Size