Course No:           Act 682

Course Name:      Quality Control & Reliability - 2

Course Description:      

a) Testing reliability hypothesis. Monte Carlo and Distribution-free methods in reliability. Baye's methods in reliability. System reliability: series and parallel; systems. K-out-of m failure models. New-better—than used models. Inferences for these models. Accelerated life testing.

b) Stewart control charts: Philosophy; Construction; Advantages. CUSUM and EWMA control charts: Construction; Average Run Length (ARL); Fast Initial Response (FIR). ARL and FIR for X and R-charts.

c) Process capability analysis. Designed experiments. Process improvements using design of experiments. Orthogonal fractional factorial designs. Acceptance sampling for attributes and variables.

Course Review:

This course focuses on quality control and different techniques to check and balance, topics covering are testing reliability hypothesis (Monte Carlo and distribution free methods in reliability), Shewhard control charts and its philosophy, construction, advantages and process capability analysis with designed experiments.