Test technical / applications of standard in furniture industry: The case of Artvin

In Turkey in the most of the companies, quality control is made randomly or never made. Control and test phases are generally simply and they are carried out without considering the details. About quality control there are a lot of standards which were laid down by the laws. But companies are spread over different geographical areas and this hinders enterprises in various scales to apply consciously the legislation, which they have to apply. Also field supervision of the laws which were put into effect are unsatisfactory and that affects the quality negatively. These situations cause economic losses at considerable extent and manufactured products cannot gain a satisfactory place in the international market rather than national market. Instead of hindering the defects in furniture manufacture, debugging methods are commonly used. In this study, today's testing/standard techniques used for quality control in furniture industry are researched. The study contains the furniture companies in Artvin. Data were gathered by using face to face survey method and 165 company personnel have been surveyed. Hereby on country basis, opinions about what and how much is important for companies and personnels and how it supposed to be are received. As a conclusion, it was found out that there is a meaningful relationship between answers about the test standards in furniture sector in considering the age, educational level, positions in company and period of work in office of the company personnel Keywords: Woodworking ındustry, furniture, test technıques, standard, quality.