Statistical Quality Control for Engineers

Training Topics:

I. Basic Concepts of Quality Control

• What is quality?
• What is control?
• The quality control system
• Inspection and testing
• The Cost of Quality

II. Raw Material Supplier Quality

• Supplier Relations
• Supplier Quality Systems
• Evaluating Supplier Capability
• Certification

III. Probability Distributions

• Describing Variation
• Discrete and Continuous Distributions
• Statistical Sampling Distributions

IV. Statistical Process Control

• Methods and Philosophy
• Central Limit Theorem
• Cause-and-effect diagrams
• Process Capability
• Prevention versus detection

V. Control Charts for Variables and Attributes

• Control charts for average X, R and S
• Control Charts for Fraction Nonconforming and Nonconformities

VI. Process Capability Analysis

• Overview
• Process Performance Indices
• How to Interpret the process performance indices
• Performing a Process Capability Analysis

VII. Hypothesis Testing

• Overview
• Comparing Means (one-simple z-test, t-test, ANOVA one-way)

VII. Regression Analysis

• Overview
• Least Squared Method
• Regression Metrics
• Simple Linear Regression

IX. Design of Experiments

• Overview
• Design of Experiments Terminology
• Full Factorial and Fractional Factorial experiments
• Response Surface experimients

X. Acceptance Sampling

• Advantages and Disadvantages
• Single Sampling Plans
• OC curves
• AOQ curves and AOQL
• ASN curves