Ferramentas da qualidade aplicadas ao processo de desenvolvimento de produtos de confecção: um estudo de caso

Abstract

The growth of the textile market in particular the fashion industry is guided by new trends and their technologies, bringing into the business more attention to enterprises that work with developments products, searching to attend the demands of new products increasing the company name in the textile market as a reference. For a Product Development Process (PDP) faster, the quality tools are used to have guarantee of an effective process with less or without mistakes. Therefore, the main objective of this research was to characterize the quality tools which could be within PDP´s levels, by theoretical research and presential interviews in a company that works with clothes confection, comparing the usages of this quality tools in Industry and giving suggestions of new possible tools that can help with better levels in development of textile field. This study’s case has pointed that some quality tools are present inside the process in an informal way without digital or physical knowledges registers, so has the necessity of one deeper research in the tools quality and its new methods in uses, searching a more detailed work in the PDP’s process development, therefore was suggested which quality tools can do an auxiliary job for each level of their textile development.