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Industrial Plants Management and Quality

32429

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Description

Course Program

1. EVOLUTION OF PRODUCTION SYSTEMS:
   • From mass production to lean production;
   • Characteristics of lean production;
   • The pillars of lean production: JIT, TQM, and TCI.
     
     
2. MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS PLANNING METHODS:
   • Material inventory management policies;
   • Management of materials with dependent demand;
   • Ordering criteria with calculated quantity: minimum unit cost and cost balancing.
     
     
3. MANAGEMENT OF MATERIALS WITH INDEPENDENT DEMAND:
   • Economic Order Quantity: definition and determination of EOQ and EMQ;
   • ABC analysis for managing materials with independent demand;
   • Determination of reorder level and safety stock;
   • ROL-type and ROC-type criteria.
     
     
4. PRINCIPLES OF TQM AND ITS EVOLUTION:
   • History of the concept of quality;
   • Objectives of the quality function;
   • Quality strategies and policies;
   • Tools and techniques of TQM;
   • Philosophy of TQM: Juran, Deming, Feigenbaum, Ishikawa, Crosby;
   • Notes on TCI.
     
     
5. TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES OF TQM
   • Identification of issues to analyze;
   • Problem solving: methods and tools;
   • Brainstorming and benchmarking.
     
     
6. JIT: TOWARDS ZERO-DEFECT PRODUCTION
   • Production and ordering kanban;
   • Calculation of the number of kanbans;
   • Effects of JIT on plant layout.
     
     
7. PRODUCT AND SYSTEM CERTIFICATION
   • Corporate Quality Systems;
   • ISO 9001:2008 rules and related standards;
   • National and European quality bodies and organizations;
   • Quality awards in Italy and Europe.
     
     
8. INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICAL PROCESS CONTROL
   • Basic statistical concepts;
   • Natural and accidental causes of variability;
   • Determinable causes of variability;
   • Mean or central tendency;
   • Range of variability and standard deviation;
   • Normal distribution;
   • Central limit theorem.
     
     
9. THE SEVEN TOOLS FOR QUALITY :
   • Data collection sheets;
   • Histograms;
   • Stratifications;
   • Pareto diagrams;
   • Cause-effect diagrams;
   • Correlation diagrams;
   • Control charts and their use;
   • Control charts for attributes and for variables: p charts, p-n charts, c charts, u charts, x-R charts.

10. PROCESS CAPABILITY:

• Capability indices;
• Actual sigma versus estimated sigma;
• Cp and Cpk indices;
• Relationship between Cp and Cpk.

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Crédits ECTS

6

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Langue d'enseignement

italiano

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Langue d'examen

italiano

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Langue des supports pédagogiques

italiano

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Acquis d'apprentissage fondamentaux

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Acquis d'apprentissage terminaux

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Catégorie de cours

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Entité de gestion (faculté)

Department of Civil and Mechanical Engineering (UNICAS)

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