Quality Engineering

General

Prefix

EM

Course Number

560

Course Level

Graduate

College/School

College of Science and Engineering

Description

Production systems, forecasting and time series analysis, inventory systems, capacity and material requirements planning, project planning and operations scheduling, job sequencing. Batch and discrete-parts production. MRPII and JIT and CIM. Technical elective. Lab.

Credits

Min

3

Max

3

Repeatable

No

Goals and Diversity

MN Goal Course

No

Cultural Diversity

No

Learning Outcomes

Outcome

Apply the modern concepts of quality engineering and experimental design.

Outcome

Use control charts and process capability analysis for quality improvements in manufacturing engineering.

Outcome

Plan, conduct and analyze experiments to discover influential factors and sources of variation.

Outcome

Use the procedures of the Taguchi method and identify the loss function concepts as applied to parameter and tolerance design.

Dependencies

Courses

EM560 is a prerequisite for:

Programs

EM560 is a completion requirement for: