Quality Management

Summary of an academic programme on Quality Management

Major – Standardisation and Metrology

Qualification (degree) – Master

Corse modules (units, topics):

The course comprises the following units:

1. Modern quality management systems and organisational effectiveness improvement methods.
2. Тotal Рroductive Мaintenance system (ТРМ).
3. Quality management in the Тotal Рroductive Мaintenance system.
4. Implementation tools and methodologies of Lean Production.
5. Six Sigma methodology subject-matter, implementation peculiarities, attractions and shortcomings.
6. Joint implementation of the concepts of Six Sigma and Lean Production.
7. Harmonisation system.
8. Benchmarking applications and efficiency.
9. Business process and organisation re-engineering.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (mandatory);
• Tutorials.

Total – 72 hours

Total credit points – 2

Lectures - 18

Practicum/Interactive – 18/10

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination or term paper

Production, Processes and Services Certification

Summary of an academic programme on Production, Processes and Services Certification

Major – Standardisation and Metrology

Qualification (degree) – Master

Corse modules (units, topics):

The course comprises the following units:

1. Introduction.
2. Legal and regulatory-procedural framework of certification.
3. Certification systems.
4. Products certification testing procedures.
5. Flow charts of accreditation of certification authorities or testing laboratories.
6. Procedure of technical regulation compliance certification.
7. Procedure of regulatory document compliance certification.
8. Certification of conformance. Schemes.
9. Confirmation of the compliance in the EU member states. EU directives.
10. Certification of imported products.
11. Certification of services.
12. Certification of management systems.
13. Certification of personnel.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (mandatory);
• Tutorials.

Total – 72 hours

Total credit points – 2

Practicum – 18/10И

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Quality Economics

Summary of an academic programme on Quality Economics

Major – Standardisation and Metrology

Qualification (degree) – Master

Corse modules (units, topics):

The course comprises the following units:

1. Introduction.
2. Theoretical approaches to the cost-effectiveness evaluation in the framework of the quality management system.
3. Up-to-date classification concepts of costs of quality and evaluation methods of costs of quality.
4. Economic evaluation of the quality system.
5. Analysis and estimation of cost of quality.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (mandatory);
• Tutorials.

Total – 108 hours

Total credit points – 3

Lectures – 28

Practicum – 28/14И

Midterm assessment – pass/fail examination

Present Control Devices of Production Quality and Measuring Automation

Summary of an academic programme on Present Control Devices of Production Quality and Measuring Automation

Major – Standardisation and Metrology

Qualification (degree) – Master

Corse modules (units, topics):

The course comprises the following units:

1. General issues of measurements, control and testing automation.
2. Specifics of measurement facilities.
3. Automatic measurement facilities of deterministic electrical and non-electrical units.
4. Information exchange facilities in automatic measurement, control and testing facilities.
5. Virtual information-measuring instruments.
6. Telemetry systems.

Activities:

• Teacher-led group activities in a classroom;
• Extracurricular self-study of the teacher’s assignments and tasks, including the use of educational facilities (mandatory);
• Tutorials.

Total – 144 hours

Total credit points – 4

Lectures – 14

Laboratory – 14/8И

Practicum – 14/8И

Midterm assessment – examination