High demand on aesthetic appearance, product quality, colour and comfort play major roles in marketing garments. In order to satisfy these requirements, fabric should be free of material defects and should conform to the specifications and the standards developed by the industry.

As it is not possible to produce entirely fault free fabric as the number of processes the material passes is increased; the occurrence of faults becomes more likely. Faults occur during fibre manufacturing, spinning, weaving or knitting and colour application processes that take place before the garment manufacturing have profound impact on the quality of the garments produced.

Lean Manufacturing Concepts now rapidly applied in garment manufacturing are focused on eliminating waste, while to increase productivity, speed of operation and improving customer interaction.  This book concentrates on reducing waste generated by fabric defects in garment manufacturing and provide reliable mathematical models to estimate garment or fabric wastage caused by defects.

The models developed and published in this book can be used with the details of the markers used to cut fabric and the data collected by inspecting fabrics employing following systems.