Dear Babu i am too from garment industry with 17 years experiance a sri lankan started from Brandex, i have completed my black belt and lean manufactyring training which have helped me a lot in changing my self from so called traditional hard harted production manager to statistcaly analysing and result orianted person in this industry. as we all know language of six sigma is little difficult for the midle level persons in garment industry to understand. to make my statemnt i would like to put like this... six sigma is like the brain of your hole process which will give you right x's which giving you the process variasion while lean a language understood by illetrate labour is the nurves ... use the lean tools to adress the issue and u will see the breake through changes happaning in from of our eyes.. mohd_ifthikar