This subject covers the following topics: total quality management; process control for attributes and variables, introducing Shewhart, Cusum, and EWMA control charts and covering regular, short, multiple-stream and serially correlated processes; acceptance sampling for attributes and variables; process capability analysis, including nonconforming ppm, capability ratios and Taguchi quality loss; tolerance analysis covering linear and nonlinear combinations of components, and Taguchi's method; and reliability analysis, including reliability measures, bounds and estimation for individual components and systems, and spare parts provisioning.
Spring semester, City campus
1. This subject is to be replaced by 35393 Seminar Statistics.