436-442 Quality Management

Credit Points

HECS Band

Coordinator

Prerequisites

Students are expected to be familiar with the material of 620-001 Statistics for Engineers and 436-204 Engineering Economics and Statistical Applications or equivalent

Semester

Contact

Subject Description

On completion of this subject, students should be able to understand what constitutes a quality system (both generally and with respect to international standards); develop strategies for implementing a quality system and its components; identify quality costs and use them for the economic analysis of quality projects; understand and quantify the relationships between process capability and tolerances; design a 'single' attribute or variables sampling scheme to meet stated requirements, and analyse and assess all common types of sampling schemes; design, analyse and interpret 'Shewhart-type' process control charts and CUSUMS for process control.

Topics covered include: Total Quality Management quality, productivity and cost relationships; quality systems and their components, incl. international standards; interaction between quality and design functions; alternate systems approaches, including leading Western and Asian concepts. Quality Control: the control function in quality; theory of sampling; the Operating Characteristic curve; the use of statistical distributions; sampling scheme design and analysis. Quality Improvement: process variability - measures and interaction with design; process capability and improvement studies; control charting; state of statistical stability; computerisation of process monitoring; cumulative sum techniques for quality studies; experimental design for quality improvement.

Assessment

One examination not exceeding three hours at the end of semester, up to four assignments/reports each of an equivalent of no more than 15 pages. Students will be notified of the weighting of assessment components at the beginning of semester.