Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives After successfully completing this subject the students should be able to appreciate the importance of quality in the current competitive environment; understand the statistical theory related to the measuring of quality; apply appropriate statistical techniques to any of a range of measurement problems; apply the techniques learnt in the class room to real world problems.
Synopsis Topics covered include the principles of total quality management; the traditional and new seven tools of total quality management; acceptance sampling; control charting for attributes, variables and individuals; process capability analysis; special control charts; industrial experimentation and evolutionary operations analysis.
Assessment Assignments 20%: + Project 80%.