Quality Engineering

11M0618

Master

German

5.0

only summer term

1 semester

Quality engineering is the methodical approach to quality-oriented product and process development and encompasses all activities within an organization to develop and produce a customer-oriented product and to ensure the required quality. 
The term QE is often used to describe important QM methods along the development phases of a product or service.

After completing the module, students will be able to select and apply the appropriate complex, model-based methods of so-called advance quality planning to tasks in product and process development of socio-technical systems.

1. Importance of proactive quality management - zero-defect strategies

2. Product development phases - temporal and content-related classification of quality engineering in the value creation processes - Advance Quality Planning

3. Methodology from product development to production and assembly, e.g.

• Model Based Systems Engineering
• Requirements engineering
• Quality Function Deployment QFD
• Value analysis VA
• Failure Mode and Effect Analysis FMEA
• Design of Experiments DOE
• CIP concepts and strategies (e.g. Six Sigma)

4. Quality information / CAQ systems

5. Case studies, business games

The total workload for the module is 150 hours (see also "ECTS credit points and grading").

The course is largely designed according to the inverted classroom model. Knowledge is acquired through independent study of prescribed literature, while attendance hours are used for the supervised application of knowledge.

• Project Report, written

• Project report (written): approx. 10 - 20 pages per project group member

Fundamentals of quality management and statistics, knowledge of basic quality management methods and tools (Q7, M7 etc.), fundamentals of development methodology and production engineering

Students will be able to name and describe the quality engineering methods appropriate to a quality-related task and give examples of their application in the product development process.

Students structure the product development process in a conceptually quality-oriented manner by relating the methods of quality engineering and their results to each other and to the necessary development and production engineering activities.

Students recognize the importance of proactive quality management for manufacturing companies and justify the use of complex quality engineering methods in a benefit-oriented manner. 

Students work on practice-oriented complex tasks for the integrated product and process development of socio-technical systems on the basis of the knowledge and skills acquired in the module.

Students take into account the requirements of various stakeholders during product and process development in the sense of a holistic quality approach by recording these in a structured manner using the methods they have learned, communicating the results of development and involving the stakeholders in validation. 

Students can critically reflect on the importance of their engineering activities for quality in terms of customer satisfaction and recognize the benefits of scientifically based procedures in quality engineering. Based on this, they can justify the use of complex methods in their professional environment.

• Pusch, Rainer

• Pusch, Rainer