What is Right First Time Quality in Apparel Manufacturing

The Right First Time (RFT) production is one of the KPIs for garment manufacturing. Like you check garments and measure defective percentage in a lot and defects per hundred units (DHU) in a lot, RFT is another measure of quality performance of a plant. By measuring RFT, a garment factory can figure out the quality level of the production process.

Garment quality control

Most of the garment manufacturers concentrate on finding defects and counting the defective units during garment checking and lot inspection. Normally, the Pass/Fail percentage is measured additional to DHU and Percentage defective measures by garment manufacturers. Remember, the pass percentage of a lot is not the RFT. The reason, in a passed lot, few defective garments may be added after correction. So, you will not get the real number of garments that were defect-free.

In defective percentage measure, you get to know how many defective garment units are found against 100 garments checked.

In RFT measure, we count how many garments are passed without any defects out of total production quantity. The RFT production percentage is number for passed units against 100 produced garments.

The formula for RFT production%
RFT = (First time passed units *100)/Total production units
Example of RFT:

Production quantity = 400
First time passed quantity=380
= (380/400)*100 = 95%

Few more examples of RFT data is shown in the following table.

Date
Production Qty
RFT Production Qty
RFT%
22-07-2019
400
380
95%
23-07-2019
420
400
95%
24-07-2019
380
365
96%
25-07-2019
412
390
95%
26-07-2019
430
400
93%


Prasanta Sarkar

Prasanta Sarkar is a textile engineer and a postgraduate in fashion technology from NIFT, New Delhi, India. He has authored 6 books in the field of garment manufacturing technology, garment business setup, and industrial engineering. He loves writing how-to guide articles in the fashion industry niche. He has been working in the apparel manufacturing industry since 2006. He has visited garment factories in many countries and implemented process improvement projects in numerous garment units in different continents including Asia, Europe, and South Africa. He is the founder and editor of the Online Clothing Study Blog.

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