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Military Systems and Processes Quality Management

Military Systems and Processes Quality Management

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Exercises

Lectures

Course Description

This course introduces students to contemporary world trends in the field of metrology and quality management in both the civil and military environment.

Study Programmes

graduate
Military Engineering - study
(2. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Apply quality management tools and methods.
  2. Apply the fundamental measurement principles.
  3. Estimate measurement uncertainty.
  4. Use statistical packages to monitor and evaluate the process quality
  5. Assess the risk.
  6. Create test procedures and quality management processes in a specialized field.

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

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Exercises

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Laboratory

Laboratory exercises will be held twice a week in two hour cycles in a laboratory at the FSB.

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Quality in Civil and Military Environment (Quality Definition, Quality Costs, Taguchi Loss Function). Example of Taguchi Loss Functions. Calculation of Quality Costs.
  2. Basic concepts of engineering metrology. The use of hand instruments, measurement errors.
  3. Application of engineering metrology. Measurements in the military industry.
  4. Measurement uncertainty estimation. Examples.
  5. Statistical process control (SPC) in civilian and military industry. Application of statistical methods of quality control in civilian and military industry.
  6. Control charts. Examples of the application of control charts.
  7. Process capability analysis. Capability indices. Calculation of process capability indices. An example from the military industrial sector.
  8. The first mid-term exam.
  9. Lean Six Sigma - Quality Management System. Six sigma metrics. Failure modes and effects analysis (FMEA), Fishbone diagram (Ishikawa diagram), Pareto analysis and 8D Method. Application in the system of military technology maintenance.
  10. Standardization. Domestic and international civil and military standards. Guidelines. Directives. Quality management system ISO 9000. Discussion.
  11. The requirements of ISO 9001: 2015. The requirements of AS / EN 9100. Comparison of the requirements of ISO 9001 and AS9100 norms.
  12. Environmental Management System ISO 14000. Occupational Health and Safety Management Systems OHSAS 18000. Examples of quality management documentation.
  13. Risk management in modern military engineering. Simulation of the certification process.
  14. Methods and tools for risk assessment. Examples of risk assessments in modern military engineering.
  15. The second mid-term exam.

Literature

Biserka Runje (2018.), Predavanja iz kolegija Upravljanje kvalitetom, Fakultet strojarstva i brodogradnje, Zagreb
Thomas Pyzdek, Paul Keller (2014.), The Six Sigma Handbook,

For students

General

ID 282328
  Summer semester
5.0 ECTS
L0 English Level
L2 e-Learning
30 Lectures
30 Exercises