Description:

In this course students are acquainted with basic concepts and documents in the field of quality management. Furthermore with the role of metrology in quality management systems and basic statistical methods used for quality assurance.

Contents:

1. Product Life Cycle and Quality, Development of QMS
2. Quality management systems - normative and strategic programs
3. Quality tools and their application
4. Basic statistical terms, continuous and discrete distributions, production stability
5. Statistical process control, statistical sampling
6. Quality planning, Quality Control
7. Quality assurance, Quality Improvement
8. Lean manufacturing, VSM, 5S, 8D
9. Metrology ? legal metrology, industrial metrology
10. Modern quality control technologies, CMM and CMS
11. Functional principles of measuring sensors and their application
12. Acceptance and verification testing of CMM
13. Capability of process Cp, Cpk, and capability of gauge Cg, Cgk
14. Measurement System Analysis ? MSA

Seminar contents:

1. Fundamentals of data processing, histogram, Pareto analysis.
2. Metrological traceability, testing, calibration.
3. Statistical process control.
4. Capability of process.
5. Failure Mode and Effects Analysis - FMEA.
6. Geometrical Product Specifications and Inspection.
7. Test.

Recommended literature:

- Quality Control For Dummies, Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.
- Six Sigma for Dummies,Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc.
- Qaulity Management Demystified, Sid Kemp
- Statistical Quality Control, Douglas C. Montgomery

Keywords:

quality, statistical methods, quality assurance, tools, standards

Abbreviations used:

Semester:

• W ... winter semester (usually October - February)
• S ... spring semester (usually March - June)
• W,S ... both semesters

Mode of completion of the course:

• A ... Assessment (no grade is given to this course but credits are awarded. You will receive only P (Passed) of F (Failed) and number of credits)
• GA ... Graded Assessment (a grade is awarded for this course)
• EX ... Examination (a grade is awarded for this course)
• A, EX ... Examination (the award of Assessment is a precondition for taking the Examination in the given subject, a grade is awarded for this course)

Weekly load (hours per week):

• P ... lecture
• C ... seminar
• L ... laboratory
• R ... proseminar
• S ... seminar