| Module Code: ENGM183 |
Module Title: ADVANCED MANUFACTURING SYSTEMS |
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Module Provider: Mechanical, Medical & Aero Engineering
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Short Name: ENGM183
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Level: M
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Module Co-ordinator: ROCKLIFF NJ Dr (M, M & A Eng)
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Number of credits: 15
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Number of ECTS credits: 7.5
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| Module Availability |
| Semester 1 |
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| Assessment Pattern |
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Unit(s) of Assessment
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Weighting Towards Module Mark( %)
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Continuous assessment
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100%
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Qualifying Condition(s)
A weighted aggregate mark of 40% is required to pass the module
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| Module Overview |
| Quality management and auditing play a fundamental role in engineering and business processes. A knowledge of relevant standard and an ability to measure appropriately are building blocks for the analysis and control of the engineering or business process. |
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| Prerequisites/Co-requisites |
| Completion of the progress requirements of Level HE3 |
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| Module Aims |
| To equip students with the knowledge of appropriate standards and how to apply them to engineering and business process analysis and control; to introduce students to quality management and audit concepts. |
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| Learning Outcomes |
By the end of the module, students should be able to:
• Identify relevant and appropriate quality standards for different situations
• Apply appropriate measurement systems
• Implement business processes and quality management schemes.
• Implement suitable quality auditing procedures
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| Module Content |
1. Quality Concepts, Standards & specifications; Natural, material, subject and system, Metrology systems
a. Quality Definitions
b. Justification of quality assurance activities (imperatives)
c. Tools and Techniques - Quality Control strategy – in a variety of industrial and organisational settings (manufacturing and service, very small volume (project) and mass production)
d. Understand standardising organisations and use of standards
i. Analyse the fundamental need for standardisation and identify the role of standardisation bodies in supporting and developing the use of standard
ii. Company, industrial, national and international
iii. Product certification procedures
iv. Natural, prototype and subjective standards
v. Principles of standardisation, concept of voluntary standards
e. Understand metrology and practically and suitably apply measurement systems
i. Knowledge of measurement devices and capabilities used in measurement and testing. Verification of fitness for use and determining proper calibration.
ii. International Standard of Length, The metre and the basic metric system and traceability
iii. Variable and attribute measuring equipment and systems
2. Quality Management Strategy; Cost of Quality, Quality and the Law (including CE Marking), Customer Satisfaction Analysis (Kano)
3. Quality Management Systems and Auditing (ISO9001, AS9100, GXP, TickIT, ISO TS 16949) (Content, application, etc.) and Auditing. (1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th party) (review, evaluation, etc.)
4. Total Quality Management. Management styles compared in relation to quality. (videos) Quality Philosophy and Gurus: Deming, Juran, Feigenbaum and Crosby. Procurement and the Control of Suppliers. Computer Aided Quality Assurance. QFD (Quality Function Deployment) and Risk Assessment and Analysis including; Fault tree analysis, FMECA (Failure Mode and Criticality Analysis)
5. Business Process Analysis and Process Mapping. Project quality management, Quality Planning and Quality Plans. Quality Improvement Initiatives (Total Quality Management, Lean, Root Cause Analysis, Quality Circles, 8D, Five whys, Zero Defects, Poka Yoke, etc.).
6. Statistical Process Control and Sampling; Process Capability Studies (Cp and Cpk) Attribute and Variable control charts, Sampling. Six Sigma
7. Directed Study - quality awareness, quality auditing environmental, health & safety, security awareness
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| Methods of Teaching/Learning |
| 44 hrs lecture/tutorials/directed study sessions; 106 hrs personal study. The coursework will consist of 2 assignments. |
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| Selected Texts/Journals |
Required reading
Vorley G and Tickle F Quality Management: Principles and Techniques 4th edition, 2010, Quality Management and Training Publications) Ltd, ISBN 9780952839170
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| Last Updated |
| 3 May 2011 |
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