Quality and Reliability Engineering
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Quality and Reliability Engineering Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Quality and Reliability Engineering (subject code 3171929) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 6 units, covering 55 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3171929)Unit 1 Introduction to Quality
- Different Definitions and Dimensions
- Quality Control
- Quality Assurance and Quality Management
- Quality as Wining Strategy
- Views of different Quality Gurus
Unit 2 Total Quality Management (TQM)
- Definitions and Principles of Operation
- Tools and Techniques
- such as, Quality Circles
- Total Quality Control (TQC)
- Total Employee Involvement (TEI)
- Problem Solving Process
- Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
- Failure Mode and Effect analysis (FMEA)
- Fault Tree Analysis (FTA)
- 7QC Tools
- PDCA Cycle
- 7 New Quality Improvement Tools
- TQM Implementation and Limitations
Unit 3 Introduction to Design of Experiments
- Taguchi approach
- Achieving robust design
- Steps in experimental design. 07 Subject Code: 3171929
Unit 4 Just –in –Time, Quality Management, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and ISO
- Introduction to JIT production system
- KANBAN system
- JIT and Quality Production
- TPM: Content
- Methods and Advantages ISO 9000
- ISO 14000 and QS 9000: Basic Concepts
- Implantation Barriers
Unit 5 Contemporary Trends
- Concurrent Engineering
- Lean Manufacturing
- Agile Manufacturing
- World Class Manufacturing
- Cost of Quality (COQ) system
- Bench Marking
- Business Process Re- engineering
- Six Sigma: Basic Concept
- Advantages and Limitation of all as applicable
Unit 6 Reliability
- Concepts of Reliability and failure: Reliability
- Failure mechanism
- failure severity and consequences
- Reliability basic functions: Probability density function
- cumulative function and reliability function
- conditional distribution and residual life
- failure rate and cumulative hazard functions
- relation between reliability basic functions
- Life characteristics: Measure of life time
- Dispersion of lifetime
- Skewness and kurtosis of life dispersion
- Reliability of repairable system: Failure repair process
- Reliability measure
- Reliability point process
- Evolution of reliability over Product life cycle: Design reliability
- Inherent reliability
- Reliability at sale
- field reliability. 10 Total Hours
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