RAJALAKSHMI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Department of Mechanical Engineering

ME 1006 Quality Control and Reliability Engineering
VI Semester Mechanical Engineering
Lesson Plan
Sl.No.
Topic
1. Introduction, definition of quality, basic concept of quality

Unit
I

2.

Definition of SQC, benefits and limitation of SQC

3.

Quality assurance Steps involved in Quality assurance

4.

Quality cost Types of quality cost

5.

Variation in process- factors process capability

6.

Process capability studies and simple problems

7.

Theory of control chart- uses of control chart

8.

Control chart for variables - X chart, R chart and chart.

9.

Problems in X chart, R chart

10. Problems in X chart and chart

11. Control chart for attributes

II

12. Control chart for proportion or fraction defectives p chart and np chart

II

13. Problems in p chart

II

14. Problems in np chart

II

15. Control chart for defects C and U charts

II

16. Problems in C chart

II

17. Problems in U chart

II

18. State of control and process out of control identification in charts

II

19. Lot by lot sampling types

III

20. Probability of acceptance in single, double, multiple sampling techniques

III

21. Problems in Single sampling

III

22. Problems in double sampling

III

23. Problems in multiple sampling

III

24. O.C. curves producers Risk and consumers Risk.

III

25. AQL, LTPD, AOQL concepts

III

26. Problems in AQL, LTPD, AOQL concepts

III

27. Standard sampling plans for AQL and LTPD

III

28. Uses of standard sampling plans.

III

29. Life testing Objective failure data analysis

IV

30. Mean failure rate, mean time to failure, mean time between failure

IV

31. Problems in MTTF and MTBF.

IV

32. Hazard rate, system reliability

IV

33. Series, parallel and mixed configuration

IV

34. Simple problems in series, parallel and mixed configuration

IV

35. Maintainability and availability

IV

36. Simple problems in maintainability and availability

IV

37. Acceptance sampling based on reliability test

IV

38. Operating Characteristic (OC) curves

IV

Sl.No.
Topic
39. Reliability improvements techniques

Unit
V

40. Use of Pareto analysis

41. Design for reliability

42. Redundancy unit and standby redundancy

43. Optimization in reliability

44. Product design and Product analysis

45. Product development and Product life cycles

TEXT BOOKS

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Grant, Eugene .L Statistical Quality Control, McGraw-Hill, 1996.

L.S.Srinath, Reliability Engineering, Affiliated East west press, 1991.
REFERENCES

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Monohar Mahajan, Statistical Quality Control, Dhanpat Rai & Sons, 2001.
R.C.Gupta, Statistical Quality control, Khanna Publishers, 1997.
Besterfield D.H., Quality Control, Prentice Hall, 1993.
Sharma S.C., Inspection Quality Control and Reliability, Khanna Publishers,
1998.
Danny Samson, Manufacturing & Operations Strategy, Prentice Hall, 1991
Connor, P.D.T.O., Practical Reliability Engineering, John Wiley, 1993
Narayanamurthy , Baskar, Statistical Quality control and Reliability
Engineering