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

Table 6

Production summary and improvement analysis.

Production summary
Criteria	Before TQM	After TQM	Savings/improvement
Actual average output (for 12 days)	2,111	2,117	6
Working minutes per day	600	600	0
Operator required	68	65	3
Helper required	13	11	2
Total manpower required	81	76	5
Total SAM	12.53	12.33	0.20
Line balance efficiency	88%	93%	5%
Output per hour (Pcs)	320	320	0
Total expected output (Pcs)	3,200	3,200	0
Output per M/C per day (Pcs)	47	49	2