Course detail
Quality Management and Metrology
FEKT-BPC-RJMAcad. year: 2023/2024
The course deals with the problems of current approaches of products and services quality assurance. Students will be familiar with importance of quality in the economy and the reasons for a systematic approach of its management, as well as the role of ISO, EN, ČSN management systems and an overview of modern methods of quality assurance. They will know the role of state and its interventions into the system of quality control, standardization, metrology and testing.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
upto 80 pointsfrom written examination.
The test focuses into the issues of reliability discussed in lectures and seminars.
The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.
Aims
The student is able to
- define the basic concepts of quality,
- describe metrology system in the Czech Republic and abroad,
- appoint the categories of measuring instruments, explain their relationship, approval, validation and calibration,
- describe the construction of a quality system in the company, the quality system documentation, quality costs, audits,
- explain the issue of quality system certification, product certification,
- knows the calculation of uncertainty of measurement of type A and B.
Study aids
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
Douglas C. Montgomery; Statistical Quality Control 7th Edition; Wiley; 2012 (CS)
Recommended reading
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
Quality system creation. Summary of accesses to quality. Procedures of quality system creation. Fulfilling of quality requirements. Quality factor of company success.
Control of documentation and data. Authorizing and publishing of documentation and data. Changing of documentation and data.
Role of check authorities on market in the Czech Republic. Accreditation of testing laboratories and certification bodies. State of quality system control in the Czech Republic and in EU.
Identification and traceability of product according to ČSN, ISO and EN series standards. Quality management. Relationship between ISO and TQM. Product technical requirements.
Control of operation. Identification and planning of production process, installation and service of product.
Checking and testing. Input, inter-operational and output checking and testing. Check and test records. Conformity and check assessment of product.
Control of checking, measuring and testing device. Control, calibration and maintenance of checking, measuring and testing device. Uncertainty of measurement. Demand competence of measurement. Reference samples.
Control of different product. Inspection of different product. Corrective and preventative arrangements.
Handling, stocking, packing, protection and delivering of product.
Internal quality audits. Planning and realizing of internal audits.
Statistical methods for assessment, regulation and evaluation of process and quality attribute capability.
State legislative interventions to quality control system standardization, metrology and testing.
Exercise in computer lab
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