Research Article
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% |
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