Research Article
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% |
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