Quality Assurance -- Summer

Dr. Lisa Anneberg, website: qbx6.ltu.edu/~anneberg

Course Site: qbx6.ltu.edu/~anneberg/shanghai.htm

Shanghai, China

 

Basic Course Objectives

        Basic principles of quality control and improvement

        State-of-Art quality concepts

        Applications of quality

Book: Montgomery 5ed, Statistical Quality Control.

Prerequisites: Algebra based mathematics, enthusiasm and energy

 

Constraints and details

        5 Weeks, 5 lectures per week, 1.5 hours/lecture

        Exam/quiz schedule: Midterm and Final exam

        Suggested chapters per week: 2-3

        Blackboards Discussion Area

 

WEEK	LECTURE	HOURS	TOPICS
ONE	Introduction/Chapter 1	1.5	Overview, History, Management Aspects
ONE	Chapter 2	3	Modeling of Quality, Graphical Techniques
ONE	Chapter 3	3	Inferences About Quality, Estimation, Hypothesis Testing, ANOVA
TWO	Chapter 4	3	Methods and Philosophy, Control Charts, Magnificent Seven
TWO	Chapter 5	3	Control Charts for Variables
TWO	Review/Exercises	1.5
THREE	Chapter 6	3	Control Charts for Attributes
THREE	MIDTERM	1.5	Multiple Choice, Calculation Problems
THREE	Chapter 7	3	Process Measurement System Capability Analysis
FOUR	Chapter 8	3	Cumulative Sum and Exponentially Weighted Control Charts
FOUR	Review/Exercises	1.5
FIVE	Chapter 12	3	Factorial Experiments for Process Design and Improvement
FIVE	Chapter 14	3	Acceptance Sampling for Attributes
FIVE	Final Exam	1.5

 

 

Additional Resources:

Montgomerys book has a great website:

www.wiley.com/college/montgomery

 

Montgomery also has other books, with good references.

 

Professional society with website:

www.asq.org

As always, the Internet is a fabulous resource.

 

Approach

I will have some daily Powerpoint lectures, but they will be supplemented by:

• Working problems on the blackboard
• Student exercises
• Assigned homework [I wont collect, but may make sure that you are keeping up]
• Feedback from students

 

 

Quiz/Exam grading:

Perfect score: 10

Arithmetic Error: 8

Minor Error: 6

Major Error: 4

Proper Approach: 2

No Information Transfer: 0

 

Final Grading

Quiz Average [60%] + Final [30%] +

Homework/Subjective/Projects: [10%].

 

Extra Credit for a maximum of 10 points is available for properly completing and explaining to the class, class-requested suggested problems at a tentative rate of up to 2 points per problem

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