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

Table 4

Defects data after TQM for 12 days.

DHU after 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	41	38	36	37	34	35	33	33	31	30	31	31	410
Updown	15	15	14	15	13	14	13	13	12	12	12	12	160
Broken stitch	23	22	21	22	20	21	19	20	18	17	18	18	239
Joint stitch	13	12	12	12	11	11	11	11	10	10	10	10	133
Raw edge	8	8	8	8	7	7	7	7	7	6	6	7	86
Open seam	5	5	5	5	5	5	4	5	4	4	4	4	55
Pleat	4	4	4	4	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	3	40
Skip stitch	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	70
Twisting	2	2	3	2	2	3	2	2	4	2	2	3	29
Uneven	7	7	6	6	6	6	6	6	5	5	5	5	70
Others	20	22	19	21	19	21	19	19	19	18	20	19	236
Total	145	142	134	138	126	132	123	125	118	112	116	117	1,528
Production	2,156	2,152	2,152	2,128	2,139	2,110	2,076	2,066	2,088	2,076	2,161	2,103	25,407
DHU	6.73%	6.60%	6.23%	6.48%	5.89%	6.26%	5.92%	6.05%	5.65%	5.39%	5.37%	5.56%	6.01%