Course detail

Quality Management

FSI-GRI-K 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

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-K: Quality, Reliability and Safety, Master's, compulsory

Programme N-VSR-K: Production Machines, Systems and Robots, Master's, compulsory-optional

Type of course unit

 

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

13 hours, compulsory

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

Guided consultation

26 hours, optionally

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