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Course Title
Course Code
Credit Hours
Semester
Resource Person

Contact Hours (Theory)

Statistical Quality Control

STAT-607
3(3,0)
Spring 2014
Dr. Tajammal Hussain
PhD (TQM), Postdoc ( TQM&
BEX)
03 hours per week

Course Description:
The objective of this course is to provide a conceptual and practical
knowledge of techniques for advanced quality control. The course contents
include Introduction to advanced quality control and improvement concepts,
Fundamentals of statistical methods and theoretical basis for quality control
methods, Advanced and newly developed quality control and improvement
methods such as modified acceptance charts, multiple stream process
control, control charts with adaptive sampling and engineering process
control for quality, International standards of acceptance sampling, Economic
design and implications of quality control and improvement procedures.
Experimental designs for quality improvement. This is an exciting topic with
wide applications in many management and industrial spheres of endeavor.
It is expected that this course will help to explore many creative and
interesting applications of these topics wherever they might surface.

Student Learning Outcomes:

After successfully completing the course, students should be able to do the

following:
1. Understand the philosophy and basic concepts of quality improvement.
2. Describe the DMAIC process (define, measure, analyze, improve, and
control).
3. Demonstrate the ability to use the methods of statistical process
control.
4. Demonstrate the ability to design, use, and interpret control charts for
variables.
5. Demonstrate the ability to design, use, and interpret control charts for
attributes.
6. Perform analysis of process capability and measurement system
capability.
7. Design, use, and interpret exponentially weighted moving average and
moving average control charts.
8. Understanding of quality standards and their implementation.

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Lecture Wise Distribution of Contents

Weeks

Topic of Lecture

Week 1

Week 2

Week 3

DMAIC approach for problem solving process

Application of DMAIC

Understanding of SPC working

Quality variations

Week 6

Week 7

Week 8

Week 9

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Ch.1

Ch.1 & 2

Management aspect of Quality control

Quality and productivity
Quality costs
Legal aspects of quality

Week 4

Week 5

Course introduction
Quality and Quality improvement methods
Quality and six sigma
Dimensions of Quality
MINITAB 17
Statistical
Methods
for
Quality
control

Reading
Assignment

SQC and magnificent seven

Applications of magnificent seven

Applications of SPC
Understanding of SPC working
Control charts
Statistical basis of control charts
Sensitizing rules for control chart
Phases of control charts application
Control charts for Variable
Control charts for Mean and Variance
Control chart for Mean and Standard
deviation
Control charts for Attributes
Control charts for fractional
nonconforming
Control charts for nonconformities
Time weighted control charts
The cumulative sum control charts
The exponentially weighted moving charts
Advanced control charting techniques
SQC for short term production runs

Ch.5.

Ch.6.

Ch.7

Ch.9

Ch.10.1-10.3
&10.6

Week 10

Week 11

Week 12

Week 13

Week 14

Week 15

Modified and Acceptance control charts

Control
charts
for
Multiple-stream
processes
Economic design of control charts
Process and measurement capability
analysis
Process capability ratios
Process capability analysis using control
charts
Acceptance sampling procedures I
The acceptance sampling problems
Single stage sampling plans
Double , Multiple, and Sequential sampling
plans
Acceptance sampling procedures II
The Dodge-Roming sampling plans
AOQL Plans
LTPD Plans
Estimation of process averages
SQC and Quality standards
Military standard105E
ANS/ASQC Z1.4
ISO 9002-2008
Experimental design for process
improvement

Ch.15

Ch.15.1-15.3
&15.5
Ch.15.4

Ch.13

Planning and experimenting

Factorial experiments
An overview of emerging trends in
latest research
SQC and Quality improvement
Process control techniques

Text Book
Reference Books

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Ch.8.

the

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1. statistical quality control: A modern

introduction by Douglas C. Montgomery, 6th
edition, Wiley Publications.
1. Statistical Quality Design and Control
-Contemporary Concepts and Methods (2nd
Edition) by Richard DeVor, Tsong-how Chang
and John Sutherland (Pearson Education).
2. Quality Control (8th Edition) by Dale
Besterfield (Prentice Hall)

Internet Resources

1. The American Society for Quality,

http://asq.org/index.aspx
2. Quality Progress,
http://asq.org/qualityprogress/index.html
3. The Juran Institute, http://www.juran.com
Six Sigma Forum, http://asq.org/sixsigma
4. Quality Digest,
http://www.qualitydigest.com/
5. Baldridge Performance Excellence Program,
http://www.nist.gov/baldrige/

Attendance Policy

Every student must attend 80% of the lectures/seminars delivered in this course
and 80% of the practical/laboratory work prescribed for the respective courses.
The students falling short of required percentage of attendance of
lectures/seminars/practical/laboratory work, etc., shall not be allowed to appear in
the terminal examination of this course and shall be treated as having failed this
course.

Course Assessment
The assessment of this module shall have following breakdown structure
Mid Term
25%
Quizzes/Assignments
25%
Terminal Examination
50%
The minimum pass marks for each course shall be 60%. Students obtaining less
than 60% marks in any course shall be deemed to have failed in that course. The
correspondence between letter grades , credit points, and percentage marks at CIIT
shall be as follows.

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