Course detail

Quality and Metrology - M

FSI-TRJ Acad. year: 2019/2020 Winter semester

The course familiarises students with basic principles of quality management and quality assurance in a company.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

4

Learning outcomes of the course unit

The course on Quality and metrology enables students to obtain knowledge of creation of the system of quality management and assurance in an enterprise and its audit and certification. Also dealt with are the ways of quality assurance in development, manufacturing and assembling stages of a product creation, as well as application of suitable methods.

Prerequisites

Basic knowledge from area of metrology and mathematical statistic

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

The course is taught through lectures explaining the basic principles and theory of the discipline. Teaching is suplemented by practical work.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

Course-unit credit is conditional on 100% attendance at practicals and preparation of the semester work. Examination has a written and an oral part and tests student´s knowledge and his/her ability to apply it in practice. Part of the exam is the defense of the semester work.

Aims

The course on Quality and metrology familiarises students with basic principles of quality management and assurance in an enterprise. The objective of the course is to acquaint the students with the European standards for quality management and assurance and with methods of quality assurance from pre-production stages of a new product development.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

1. 100% attendance at practicals.
2. Working out of semester project.
3. Presentation and defense of semester project.

The study programmes with the given course

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

26 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

1. Terms and definitions
2. Context of the organization
3. Leadership of the organisation
4. Quality planning – QFD
5. Quality planning – System FMEA
6. Quality planning – FTA
7. Support processes of Quality Management
8. Operation processes of Quality Management – SPC
9. Performance evaluation
10. Improvement of processes – KAISEN
11. Improvement of processes – DOE
12. Improvement of processes – Process FMEA
13. Presenation and defence of semestral project

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Syllabus

– Methodology QFD – a case study
- Methodology FMEA – a case study
- Methodology FTA – a case study
- Methodology SPC
- Pareto analysis
- Statistical interpretation of measuring