Avoid Sample Mistakes – Your product Tech Pack is a blue print for factories and pattern makers to develop your sample. Every detail that’s needed for the garment should be in the tech pack. Factories create garments based on its tech pack, and if it’s not in the technical specification design package, it will not be on the garment. The clearer and more instructional the tech pack, it increase the level of accuracy for your sample.
Price Quotes – Design sophistication, fabrication, and details are the key to accurate price quotes when designing tech packs. These 3 elements communicate clearly to the factory what’s is necessary for construction and allows the factory to respond with development time and your initial pricing quote.
Manufacturing Accountability – The sample is the reference point and binding commitment between you and your manufacture. Your sample is basically a guideline to keeps factories honest and accountable on multiple levels from product construction and quality standards, to fabrication, trims and artwork. Samples allow factories and creators use as a reference point for imperfection corrections.
Quality Control – Technical Specification design package is your Key document to refer back during the Quality Assurance process. Sample development can be tricky, with even the slightest change you’ll need to check all points of measurement, labeling, construction, stitching etc. These changes will need to be communicated in the tech pack and with the factory.
Design or Spec Changes – The sample development process is a multi-step process, it’s very rare that you will find a factory to get your idea 100% accurate on it’s 1st try regardless of the accuracy of your tech pack. To create your sample perfection you’ll need to do a model fitting. Fitting’s allow creators a chance to see their design on an actual body, which makes it far easy to make corrections and revisions to the design prototype. These changes and or revisions must be detailed in an updated version of the tech pack.
Time is Money, let’s save some – Designing a tech pack requires time and key focus on details. Money well spent when you realize the amount of stress, money, time and energy you save moving forward.Complete tech packs reduces waste on bad samples, the cost of development, and logistics. Design and product development is a process, and all processes have its own set of challenges, 95% of the challenges are easy to avoid when you have a highly detailed technical specification and fabrication package as a point of reference.
Tech Packs Equals Team Effort – Your technical specification package will ignite multiple departments in your supply matrix. Tech packs creates a form of synergy on multiple levels, collaboration and communication is imperative when developing product. Designers and creators, product developers and manufactures, buyers and agents work collectively to create premium quality at an expedited pace.