Schedule - Fall 2007
MEM 650 Quality Control
Stout home MEM 650 home Syllabus Lecture notes Schedule
| Class | Date | In class actions | Class preparation | Homework due today |
| 1 | 27 Aug |
Course Introduction Chapter 1 - Quality Basics The Customer |
Read Chapter 1 | Develop quality attributes for desk-side presentations in class |
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3 Sep | Labor day holiday |
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| 3 | 10 Sep |
Chapter 1 TQM Organizing for Quality Desksides: TQM - "Organizing for Quality - Business Examples" |
Problem: chapter 1-8 | |
| 4 | 17 Sep |
Chapter
2 Quality Advocates Desksides: Quality "Gurus" Deming’s 14 Points Deming’s "Red Bead" experiment |
Read Chapter 2 | |
| 5 | 24 Sep |
Chapter 3 "PDSA" - Quality Improvement Problem Solving "Xerox" and "Florida Power and Light" |
Read Chapter 3 | Problems: chapter 2-3, 2-7, 2-12 |
| 6 | 1 Oct |
Chapter 3 Quality Tools Desksides: 7 QC tools Ch3 Case Study |
Problems: chapter 3-2, 3-4 | |
| 7 | 8 Oct |
Chapter 4 Quality Metrics Measurement Statistics in Quality |
Read Chapter 4 |
Problems: chapter 3-11, 3-36(c) Case Study: "How We Slashed Response Time" |
| 8 | 15 Oct |
Chapter 4 Statistics in Quality Central Limit Theorem |
Research
journal article review/critique due Problems: chapter 4-2, 4-3 |
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| 9 | 22 Oct | Chapter 5 Variable Control Charts |
Read Chapter 5 | Problems: chapter 4-8, 4-9, 4-24, 4-36, 4-44 |
| 10 | 29 Oct | Chapter 6
Process Capability Chapter 7 Other Variable Control Charts |
Read Chapter 6 Read Chapter 7 |
Problems: chapter 5-2, 5-8, 5-18, 5-19 and control chart handout problem |
| 11 | 5 Nov | Chapter 8
Probability Sun Microsystems Best Practices Chapter 9 Quality Control for Attributes |
Read Chapter 8 Read Chapter 9 |
Problems: Chapter 6–1, 6-2,
6-3, 6-4, 6-13 Problems: Chapter 7–2, 7-5, 7-11 |
| 12 | 12 Nov | Saint Martin's Day holiday | ||
| 13 | 19 Nov |
Chapter 14 Quality Systems: ISO 9000 Six Sigma |
Read Chapter 14 | Problems: Chapter 8: 5, 9,
10, 20, 26, 33, 34 Chapter 9: 9, 21 |
| 14 | 26 Nov |
Chapter 10 Reliability
Chapter 11 Advanced Topics in Quality - QFD Chapter 12 Quality Costs |
Read Chapter 10 | Problems: chapter 14-4 |
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3 Dec | Oral presentation of final case results | Case write-up due | |
| 16 | 10 Dec | Final exam |