Metodo per il monitoraggio della qualità di processo di una macchina per la lavorazione del settore del tabacco

The invention provides a method for monitoring the process quality of a processing machine in the tobacco industry, comprising the following steps: preparing a raw material or semi-finished product in a processing machine in the tobacco industry, subjecting the raw material or semi-finished product to at least one processing step, subsequently, the processed raw material or semi-finished product is subjected to at least one inspection step to determine at least one property of the processed raw material or semi-finished product, and a temporary exclusion of the processing steps is carried out periodically or in a controlled manner, so that the processing steps are not carried out in a normally planned mode over a time interval. During the step of temporarily excluding the processing step, an inspection step is initiated to determine a property of the unprocessed raw material or semi-finished product, the property of the unprocessed raw material or semi-finished product being analyzed to obtain at least one item of information relating to the process quality of the machine.