Quality Control in Apparel Is Still Based on Opinion

Quality control in apparel manufacturing is still largely driven by human judgment — from factory floor inspections to final AQL checks. That means fatigue, incentives, rounding errors, and bias are baked into the data brands rely on to make sourcing decisions.

In this episode, Cyrus Naderi explains why subjective QC is one of the industry’s biggest hidden risks. We discuss computer vision for automated garment measurement, the limits of human inspection, sourcing instability post-China, and how robotics and smart glasses could reshape factory operations in the next five years.