| CODE | MFE4213 | ||||||||||||
| TITLE | Quality and Reliability Engineering | ||||||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 04 - Years 4, 5 in Modular UG or PG Cert Course | ||||||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | ||||||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | ||||||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | Quality and reliability engineering is an essential and day to day aspect of product development, engineering design, manufacturing process control, and service realization. The latest quality developments have seen a shift away from achieving quality by inspection to designing in quality into the product with the latest trends aligning quality management with emerging capabilities of Industry 4.0. This means that methods and techniques are required to achieve these aims. Within this study unit the subject is approached from two perspectives. On one hand quality management approaches and on the other technical tools and methods for quality and reliability engineering. This study-unit begins by reviewing and understanding the quality management approaches that have been developed by quality gurus such as Deming, Juran and Crosby and applies these within modern industrial scenarios. Based on these management approaches other modern approaches such as the Taguchi method and Team Oriented Problem Solving (TOPS/8D) are presented. In order to design in quality into products the methods of advanced statistical process control (SPC), six-sigma engineering, design of experiments, managing for quality, Quality 4.0, and process improvement tools are explained. Reliability engineering is then introduced by presenting reliability modelling, design approaches for reliability and testing engineering. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to give the students an appreciation of the impact of management decisions on total quality management and the achievable quality of an organization. Students will recognize the need to design in quality into a product. The study-unit also aims to give the students an appreciation of the importance of effective teamwork within engineering problem solving, while also providing them with knowledge of multiple process improvement tools. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Explain the quality management philosophies of Deming, Juran and Crosby; - Define in terms of practical usage the importance of working as a team during problem solving activities; - Define and demonstrate the use of quality in product design; - Demonstrate the use of advanced quality planning in product and process development; - Define in terms of practical usage the importance of quality to manage an engineering organisation; - Define and demonstrate the use of multiple process improvement tools; - Define the practice of quality management with emerging capabilities of Industry 4.0 (Quality 4.0). 2. Skills By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Carry out a Design of Experiment project; - Carry out a Six Sigma project; - Carry out an 8D project; - Use advanced SPC methods; - Use reliability design methods; - Use process improvement tools. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - The Quality Toolbox - Nacny R. Tague. - A First Course in Quality Engineering – K.S Krishnamoorthi.Quality and reliability engineering is an essential and day to day aspect of product development, engineering design, manufacturing process control, and service realization. The latest quality developments have seen a shift away from achieving quality by inspection to designing in quality into the product with the latest trends aligning quality management with emerging capabilities of Industry 4.0. This means that methods and techniques are required to achieve these aims. Within this study unit the subject is approached from two perspectives. On one hand quality management approaches and on the other technical tools and methods for quality and reliability engineering. This study-unit begins by reviewing and understanding the quality management approaches that have been developed by quality gurus such as Deming, Juran and Crosby and applies these within modern industrial scenarios. Based on these management approaches other modern approaches such as the Taguchi method and Team Oriented Problem Solving (TOPS/8D) are presented. In order to design in quality into products the methods of advanced statistical process control (SPC), six-sigma engineering, design of experiments, managing for quality, Quality 4.0, and process improvement tools are explained. Reliability engineering is then introduced by presenting reliability modelling, design approaches for reliability and testing engineering. Study-unit Aims: This study-unit aims to give the students an appreciation of the impact of management decisions on total quality management and the achievable quality of an organization. Students will recognize the need to design in quality into a product. The study-unit also aims to give the students an appreciation of the importance of effective teamwork within engineering problem solving, while also providing them with knowledge of multiple process improvement tools. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Explain the quality management philosophies of Deming, Juran and Crosby. - Define in terms of practical usage the importance of working as a team during problem solving activities. - Define and demonstrate the use of quality in product design. - Demonstrate the use of advanced quality planning in product and process development. - Define in terms of practical usage the importance of quality to manage an engineering organisation. - Define and demonstrate the use of multiple process improvement tools. - Define the practice of quality management with emerging capabilities of Industry 4.0 (Quality 4.0). 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Carry out a Design of Experiment project; - Carry out a Six Sigma project; - Carry out an 8D project; - Use advanced SPC methods; - Use reliability design methods; - Use process improvement tools. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: - The Quality Toolbox - Nacny R. Tague. - A First Course in Quality Engineering – K.S Krishnamoorthi |
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| ADDITIONAL NOTES | Pre-requisite Study-unit: MFE3207 | ||||||||||||
| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lecture and Tutorial | ||||||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Joseph Paul Zammit |
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