Inter-phase control of defects and reasons for their occurrence in the process of sewing women's trousers

Quality is the best investment to strengthen the competitiveness of enterprises in the international market. Achieving quality is the responsibility of every worker in the organization. The role of quality control is to detect defects by constantly monitoring the production process, analyzing the defects, fi nd the source of their occurrence and take appropriate corrective measurements. In this paper, are presented some factors that have infl uence on defects occurrence in the process of sewing one model of female trousers. The obtained results during the inter-phase control in two production lines in the four week period are analyzed. Possible reasons for detected defects are indicated by: Working days in the week, the structure of the employees in the production lines, their work experience, their age and diffi culty of operations. The infl uence of each of these factors is discussed separately.