Quality management and inspection
In this subject the students will be made familiar with economic aspects of quality. Quality and protection of the environment. Legislation. Systems ensuring quality management. Quality Journal. Preparing a quality manual ? analysis and application. The Deming principles, the Juran trilogy, the Taguchi loss function. Chemical analytical methods, electrochemical and spectrometric methods. Determination of gases contained in metals. Application of mechanical testing in the testing of castings. Physical testing aimed at establishing operational & technological properties. Visual inspection. Principal methods of non-destructive evaluation based on capillary phenomena, magnetic and electrical properties of substances, acoustic and radiological methods, infrared non-destructive evaluation. Fundamentals and application of ultrasound non-destructive evaluation. Principles of statistical quality inspection. Metrology laboratories.