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I have some really cool shirt pressing defect pictures for you this month. I believe that these have a lot of value. Primarily, if you see such pressing errors in your plant, you may be better armed with the proper information to find the cause and fix the problem that caused the defect in the first place. This could be an equipment issue, an employee training issue or something else. And when you see the photos that I show you, maybe you will be more inclined to look at the shirts in your plant as you walk by to see if a problem that I mention exists in your plant.
I have some really cool shirt pressing defect pictures for
you this month. I believe that these
have a lot of value. Primarily, if you
see such pressing errors in your plant, you may be better armed with the proper
information to find the cause and fix the problem that caused the defect in the
first place. This could be an equipment
issue, an employee training issue or something else. And when you see the photos that I show you,
maybe you will be more inclined to look at the shirts in your plant as you walk
by to see if a problem that I mention exists in your plant. I think my primary motivation for snapping these photos is
to defend my belief that getting productivity from your employees does not mean
that you will get poor quality. But I
show you examples of poor quality to prove that carelessness does indeed
generate poor quality. Carelessness, not
haste. Look at the next 3 pictures. In each of these cases, it is reckless
disregard that produced a “bang and hang”, not speed. Doing each of these things correctly would
not have taken even a millisecond more time than it did to produce the pictured
result. Open your eyes. Pay attention. And that goes for managers as well as
pressers. Open your eyes. Pay attention. Be aware of what is going on around you!
 Picture 1 - There is
no excuse for this. The topmost inch of
the sleeve is not pressed. Look at Photo 1. The
presser failed to align the measuring device on the sleeve press with the seam
on the sleeve. Doing it correctly
wouldn’t have cost time. Doing it wrong
wasted time!
Two examples of carelessness. | 
Picture 2 - My father
would have called this "not paying attention to what you're
doing". He was right. In Picture 2, it would have taken virtually no time for the
presser to smooth out the two wrinkled areas. Instead, carelessness prevailed and the sleeve presser damaged the
smooth press on the cuff and pressed in a new wrinkle in the sleeve. The result is poor quality, caused by a
careless presser and oblivious management. Haste is not the culprit. Another example of that same cause is shown in Picture
3. The collar was folded at the wrong
place. There is no excuse for this. It’s not haste. It’s poor training and/or carelessness. Yuck!
Picture 3 - this
collar was folded improperly and the result is poor quality by anyone's
standards In these simple examples of poor quality, there is a very
fine line between a good job and a bad job. It would have taken so little effort to make these shirts great. But carelessness prevailed. In these days of declining piece counts, it is more true
than ever that profitability hides within the matrix of that all-important
combination of quality and productivity. It is not a choice of one or the other. |
