MBA663A: Total Quality Management

Course Instructor
Dr. Raghu Nandan Sengupta
Course Description

Syllabus
Total Quality Management, quality management Philosophies, Leadership, Employee involvement and customer Value Evaluation, Kaizen, Problem Solving and Quality Management, problem solving Fundamentals, Problem Identification, Definition, Diagnosis, Alternative Generation and Evaluation, Elementary concepts related to 7 Old and 7 New Tools for quality Assurance, Basic Statistical Concepts, Control of Accuracy and Precision, Process Capability, SPC, Acceptance Sampling, MIL-STD-105D. Quality Management Systems, ISO 9000, Quality Engineering, Quality Function Development, Introduction to Design of Experiments, Process Optimization and Robust Product Design, Steps to Six Sigma, Management of Service Quality, Management of Software Quality, Course will include projects and industry case studies.

Modules
Module_00: Basic Probability Statistics, Mutually Exclusive/Exhaustive Events, Bayes Theorem, Random variable (Discrete/Continuous), Expected Value, Variance, Correlation, Distributions, Sampling concepts, Sampling Distributions, Z, t, Chi-Square and F distribution, Statistical Inference (Point, Interval and Hypothesis Testing), linear Regression

Module_01: Concept of TQM, Philosophy of TQM, Quality Characteristics, Dimension of Quality, History of Quality Control, Deming, Juran, Feigenbaum, Basic of six sigma, DMAIC concepts, Quality Improvement Policies,

Module_02: Quality Assurance tools, Pareto Charts, Cause Effect Diagrams, Defect Concentration Diagrams, Affinity Diagrams, Relations Diagram, Tree Diagram, Matrix Diagrams

Module_03: Quality Function Deployment (QFD), House of Quality, Concepts of Attributes, Correlation Matrix, Customer and Design Attributes,

Module_04: Sampling plans, Single sampling, Double Sampling, Producer's Risk, Customer's Risk, AQL, LTPD, OC Curves, Calculations for OC Curves, Designing Sampling Plans

Module_05: R tutorial for TQM

Module_06: Variable Control Charts, Statistical Process Control, Concepts of Variable and Attribute, Charts for Variable, Charts for Mean/Range/Standard Deviation with examples, Basics of UCL/LCL/USL/LSL, Revising Control limits, Interpreting Charts, Moving Control Charts

Module_07: Attribute Control Charts, p Chart with example, np Chart with example, c chart with example, u chart with example, Average run length, Variable sample size charts

Module_08: Process Capability Analysis, Probability plots, Process Capability Ratio, Process Capability Analysis using Control Charts, Capability, Tolerance, Accuracy, Precision

Module_09: ISO Concepts

Module_10: Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) Charts with example, Monitoring Process Mean, Estimating K and H with example, CUSUM chart for monitoring Process Variability with example

Module_11: Exponential Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) Control Chart with example, Calculation of steady state value for control limits, Combination of EWMA and Shewhart Charts, Monitoring Variability, Process Level Prediction using EWMA Chart, Moving Average Control Chart with example

Module_12: TQM Implementation, Bench marking, Bench marking Approach and Process, TQM Implementation steps
Course Content