Khimych V. Evaluation of the quality and competitiveness of footwear manufacturing according to consumer demands

The thesis is devoted to the solution of urgent problems in evaluating the quality and competitiveness of footwear manufacturing . A number of new theoretical and experimental results have been obtained in this paper, that allowed to develop a dynamic model of consumer requirements for footwear products; to determine influence of the physical and mechanical properties of materials on shoes comfort, to improve principles and approaches to qualimetric quality assessment of footwear products; to experimentally establish the correlation between foot and shoe size corresponding to different levels of its comfort , which helped to establish the permissible values of pressure on feet; to offer a competitive product evaluation algorithm of shoe manufacturing, which simplifies decision-making on the further production. The results of studies were tested and implemented as methods for evaluating the footwear quality according to consumer demands, which enhances range , produced at enterprises and competitiveness of footwear products.