Quality control
Dr R Sridharan and Ms Bonnie Buchanan
6 points * One 3-hour session per week * First semester * Clayton * Prerequisite: MBA5550 or MBA5460
Synopsis This subject focuses on quality control and its implications for Australian industry. An emphasis is placed on modern ideas emerging from Japan in addition to traditional statistical methods for controlling quality. It builds on topics covered in the foundation quantitative methods subjects and includes topics on the principles of total quality management, the traditional seven tools of total quality management; the new seven tools of quality management; control charting for attributes, variables and individuals; process capability analysis; acceptance sampling; special control charts including those based on exponentially weighted moving averages; reliability with an emphasis on preventive maintenance; industrial experimentation and evolutionary operations analysis.
Assessment Written (5000-word project and two quantitative assignments of 5-10 problems): 100%
Prescribed texts
Mitra A Fundamentals of quality control and improvement Maxwell Macmillan, 1993