Course detail
Quality Management
FSI-GRI Acad. year: 2025/2026 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
Supervisor
Entry knowledge
Student should have basic knowledge of design of machinery.
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Course-unit credit is conditional on 100% attendance at practicals and preparation of the semester work.
Examination:
Test consisting of 20 questions (max. 20 points).
Rating: 24,50 points or more A; 23,50 points or more B; 22 points or more C; 20 points or more D; 18 points or more E
1. 100% attendance at practicals.
2. Working out of semester project.
Aims
The course on Quality Management 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.
The course on Quality Management 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.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-KSB-P: Quality, Reliability and Safety, Master's, compulsory
Programme N-VSY-P: Production Systems, Master's, compulsory
Programme N-VSR-P: Production Machines, Systems and Robots, Master's, compulsory-optional
Type of course unit
Lecture
26 hours, optionally
Syllabus
1. Terms and definitions
2. Context of the organization
3. Leadership of the organisation
4. Quality planning – QFD
5. Quality planning – 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 – FMEA and FTA
13. Presenation and defence of semestral project
Exercise
13 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
Lessons are organised in modules of 2 hours every 2 weeks.
1. Practical application of QFD method
2. Practical application of FTA method
3. Practical application of FMEA method
4. Assignment of semester projects
5. Consultations to semester projects.
6. Consultations to semester projects.
7. Presentation of semester projects + course-unit credit awarding