Course No:           Act 681

Course Name:      Quality Control & Reliability - 1

Course Description:      

a) Basic concepts of reliability. Truncation and censoring. Structural reliability.

b) Lifetime distributions (Failure tmodels): Hazard rate; Gamma, Weibull, Gumbel, Log-Normal and Inverse Gaussian distributions; Stochastic Fatigue rate models; Point and interval estimation; Fatigue-life model.

c) Quality: Definition; concepts. Quality Control; Total Control; Methods for Improvement. Total Quality Management (TQM). Statistical Methods in Quality Improvements. Statistical Process Control (SPC). Statistical Quality Control (SQC). Acceptance Sampling Plans: Single-; Double-; and multiple sampling; Military Standard 105 Sampling Plan.

Course Review:

In this world of competition, maintaining quality gives the edge to any company over another. This course covers the basis concept of reliability, truncation and censoring, structural reliability, lifetime distribution (Failure Models), concept of quality control and methods for improvement.