- Docente: Mario Rinaldi
- Credits: 6
- SSD: ING-INF/07
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Mario Rinaldi (Modulo 1) Mario Rinaldi (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Engineering Management (cod. 0049)
Learning outcomes
A knowledge of Quality, Quality Management Systems, Total Quality Management.
An appreciation of the need for Quality and Quality Standards, especially ISO 9000.
An appreciation of the ISO and IEC Technical Specifications; the importance of the type approvals of the products. The CE label of the European Community.
Ability to design, construct and interpret Statistical Process Control (SPC) Methods.
An appreciation of Reliability in Product and Production systems.
Course contents
The production of goods and services as a creation of value and wealth. Introduction to Quality, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Total Quality Control and Total Quality Management (Deming, Juran, Ishikawa, Taguchi)). Standards and their inter-relationship: the evolution of ISO 9000.
Salient points of probability and statistics: the normal distribution, the mean, the standard deviation, the sampling, the central limit theorem, the binomial distribution.
The product compliance. The tests, the measurements, the international measuring system, the standards, the instruments for measuring, the calibrations, the uncertainty.
The ISO and IEC Technical Specifications and those of the National Committees; the approvals and the labels concerning the quality of the industrial products.
The Statistical Process Control and the techniques used; the X – R charts; the p, np, c, u charts; the concept of the process capability.
Fundamental principles of reliability. Practical reliability definitions: mean time to failure (MTTF), mean time between failures (MTBF), the mean time to repair (MTTR) and the availability; the failure rate or hazard rate and the bathtub curve; the function R (reliability). The reliability of the components and of the systems. The life tests. The degradation of materials.
Readings/Bibliography
Birolini: “Reliability engineering”, Springer
Carrada: “L'affidabilità per l'elettronica”, La Goliardica,Editrice Universitaria Roma
Cecconi: “Normative e legislazione tecnica”, Pitagora Editrice Bologna
Galgano: “La qualità totale”, Il Sole-24Ore
Grant-Leavenworth: “Statistical quality control”, McGraw-Hill Inc.
ISO, UNI Standards
Ishikawa: “Guida al controllo di qualità”, Franco Angeli Editore
Leon-Garcia: “Probability and random processes for Electrical Engineering”, Addison-Wesley
Mattana: “Qualità, affidabilità e certificazione”, Franco Angeli Editore
Montgomery: “Controllo statistico della qualità”,McGraw-Hill Libri Italia
Polese: “Misure per la gestione”, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane
Zanini: “Elementi di affidabilità”, Progetto Leonardo
Teaching methods
Lectures and meeting with representatives of the firm world
Assessment methods
Oral examination.
Teaching tools
Handouts available for students
Office hours
See the website of Mario Rinaldi