Advanced topics in Quality, Reliability and Maintainability

The course introduces the concepts of quality and total quality management and their applications. It also covers Quality models, International standards (ISO 9000) series and its applications in industrial field, Statistical Process Control (SPC), and practical applications of total quality management. This course, also, introduces concepts, principles and techniques used in evaluation and assessment of reliability, maintainability and serviceability in industrial systems. Emphasis is given to theory and techniques to determine time-to-failure, failure rate, reliability and availability of components/systems, including strength-stress analysis, construction of reliability bath-tube curves (RBTC), failure mode and strength-stress analysis (FMEA), fault tree analysis (FTA).