Improving Quality, Productivity, and Cost Aspects of a Sewing Line of Apparel Industry Using TQM Approach

Table 3

Defects data before TQM for 12 days.

DHU before implementing TQM
Defects	Week 1						Week 2						Grand total
	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3	Day 4	Day 5	Day 6	Day 7	Day 8	Day 9	Day 10	Day 11	Day 12
Uncut thread	48	44	47	46	46	43	45	42	46	46	43	44	540
Updown	19	19	20	18	20	19	17	19	18	18	19	17	223
Broken stitch	26	26	28	26	28	26	25	23	27	24	26	26	311
Joint stitch	16	16	17	17	18	15	16	16	17	15	16	16	195
Raw edge	8	8	9	7	8	6	7	5	6	7	6	7	84
Open seam	5	5	6	6	5	6	6	5	6	6	6	4	66
Pleat	4	4	4	4	5	4	4	4	4	4	4	3	48
Skip stitch	7	7	7	7	8	5	7	6	7	7	8	5	81
Twisting	2	2	3	3	3	3	3	2	3	3	3	2	32
Uneven	7	7	5	7	6	5	5	7	5	7	6	5	72
Others	30	27	21	21	21	20	18	20	16	18	23	18	253
Total	172	131	141	134	141	127	130	122	134	130	131	124	1,580
Production	2,151	2,165	2,064	2,090	2,156	2,070	2,065	2,054	2,161	2,144	2,070	2,151	25,341
DHU	8.00%	6.05%	6.83%	6.41%	6.54%	6.14%	6.30%	5.94%	6.20%	6.06%	6.33%	5.76%	7.52%