Quality Management And Reliability

With the rapid advancement in technology and awareness, the users have become highly quality conscious and demanding. This calls for the products, equipments, and services with high degree of quality, reliability and safety.

The concept of end product inspection has shifted to the philosophy of quality assurance. The belief that quality and elements of reliability and safety has to be built in right from its design stage and enforcement of the stringent quality assurance measures during manufacture has brought in drastic changes in the approach towards quality assurance. Today the quality assurance is based on quality audit checks and surveillance of the manufacturer’s processing environment and quality systems rather than testing and inspection of finished products. In order to improve the reliability of the system, it is important to stipulate reliability requirements of components and sub-systems.

1. Quality Concepts

Section 1 - Inspection

2. Inspection

3. Acceptance Sampling and O.C. Curves

4. Measurement and Testing

Section 2—Quality Control

5. Quality Planning

6. Quality Improvement

7. Organising For Quality

8. ISO-9000 Quality Management System

9. Control of Quality and Quality Assurance

10. Quality Information Systems (QIS)

11. Total Quality Management (TQM)

Section 3—Statistical Quality Control

12. Statistical Concept

13. Probability Theory

14. Correlation and Regression Analysis

15. Process Capability

16. Theoretical (Probability) Distribution

17. Statistical Process Control and Control Charts

Section 4—Reliability

18. Reliability Engineering

19. Designing for Reliability

20. Value Engineering (Value Analysis)

21. Maintenance — A Reliability Improvement Measure

22. Equipment Replacement

23. Life-Testing and Reliability

24. System Reliability

25. Reliability Improvement

26. Objective Type Questions

Index