TATISTICAL QUALITY CONTROL

PURDUE UNIVERSITY

Learning Objective:

To help students understand the concepts underlying statistical quality control and to develop
their ability to apply those concepts to the design and management of quality control processes
in industries. Major topics include history and overview of the state of the art of quality control
methodologies, tools for descriptive and predictive statistical analysis, design and use of various
control charts for quality control, process characterization and capability analysis, R&R gauge
capability studies, design of experiments, acceptance sampling and continuous improvement.
The emphasis will be on ensuring that the students gain both a broad perspective of quality
control as well as the technical skills necessary to implement quality control in any industrial
setting.

Description:

** This is the same course as IE53000 Quality Control ** The course will comprise a balanced
blend of the statistical quality control concepts and hands-on training in the methods, standards
and guidelines currently being used for industrial quality control. The course will not assume any
prior knowledge other than previous exposure to elementary probability theory; the discussion
will be self-contained and all of the topics will be developed from the fundamentals. The course
will enable a practising engineer to gain a firm grasp of statistical quality control methods and
enable him/her to not only analyze and improve existing quality control processes, but also
design and implement new quality control processes in industrial settings.

Topics Covered:

History of quality control, modern quality control philosophy, Design-Measure-Analyze-Improve-

Control paradigm, methods for describing variation including histograms, stem-and-leaf plots,
box plots, discrete and continuous random variables, probability plots, statistical inference
methods, design of control charts for variable and attribute data including X-bar, R, S, CUSUM,
MA and EWMA charts, sensitizing rules including Western Electric guidelines, average run
length, process characterization and capability analysis, gauge R&R studies, design of
experiments with emphasis on factorial design, sampling inspection, attribute and variable
acceptance plans, six-sigma and TQM.