QUALITY CONTROL

20 MECH 6074

Instructor: Thomas R. Huston, PhD, PE 626 Rhodes 513-556-2645 (Office) tom.huston@uc.edu

Course description: Examines the processes and tools used to ensure quality of an item, a system, a process, or an engineering endeavor. The topics of total quality management, statistical process control, and quality systems are explored. Also, the historical development and current trends in quality are examined.

Textbook: Mitra, Amitava. Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement, 3rd ed., Wiley, 2008

Week Topic Chapter

1 IntroductionTotal Quality System 1

2 Quality Advocates 2Quality Philosophies

3 Quality Management Practices 3Quality Function DeploymentQuality Management Standards & Tool

4 Test Basic Axioms of Probability 4.1-4.4

5 Probability Distributions 4.5-4.6 Concepts of Descriptive Statistics

6 Inferential Statistics 4.7Tests of Hypotheses

7 Data analysis and Sampling Concepts 5.1-5.7Basic concepts of Control Charts 6.1-6.2Causes of Variation, Analysis of Patterns in Control Charts 6.3-6.5

8 Variable Control Charts for Mean and Range and Standard Deviation 7.1-7.5Control Charts Individual Units 7.6Test

9 Control Charts for Short Production Runs 7.7 Control Charts for Variable Subgroups/Moving Averages 7.8

Control Charts for Linear Trend/ Medians

10 Control Charts for Attributes 8.1-8.9P, np, c, u, U charts

11 Process Capability Analysis 9.1-9.7Capability Indices; Capability Ratio

12 Acceptance Sampling Plans 10.1-10.6, 10.8Standardized PlansTest

13 Reliability 11.1-11.4System Reliability: series and parallel

14 Experimental design 12.1-12.5Factorial and additional experimental design

15 Final Exam

Grading: Homework—15% Tests—45% Final Exam 40%