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COURSE PRO FORMA

IMPORTANT:
Contents of this Pro Forma shall not be changed without the Senate’s approval for items indicated with *. Changes
to the other items can be approved at the Academy/Faculty/Institution/Centre level.

Academy/Faculty/Institute/Centre Engineering
Department Mechanical Engineering

Programme Bachelor of Engineering (Manufacturing)

Course Code* KCEP 4XXX

Course Title* Total Quality Management

Course Pre-requisite(s)/ Minimum Require- None
ment(s)

Student Learning Time (SLT)* 120 hours

Credit* 3

Course Learning Outcomes* At the end of the course, students are able to:
1. Understanding the importance and relevance of TQM and problem
solving tools in today’s manufacturing and research.
2. Analyse the use of the basic statistical concepts and presentation of
that in appropriate forms.
3. Justify the concept of variation in manufacturing and relating the
relevant causes, variable and attribute control charts, process
capabilities and interpreting them to monitor the on-time and off-time
processes behaviour.
4. Appraise the concepts of acceptance sampling, and maintainability and
reliability

Transferable Skills None

Synopsis of Course Contents This course is offered to make the students aware about the significance of
quality and reliability in manufacturing and design engineering, and to pro-
vide them with the quantitative analyses and qualitative approaches perti-
nent to process quality. The main contents of the course are: importance,
benefit and scope of TQM/QM; Evolution-QC, TQC, QA, TQM; fundamen-
tals of statistics; problem analysis; QM tools & techniques –QC7, QM7 and
advanced tools/techniques- Control charts for variables and attributes; ac-
ceptance sampling; Continuous improvement techniques; QM systems and
ISO 9000/14000 series; six-sigma strategy; basic reliability; TQM imple-
mentation technique, 7-P Practices; change of organizational culture to-
wards quality.

Learning Strategies (lecture, tutorial, work- Lecture, tutorial, case study
shop, discussion, etc)

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