AS4017 Reliability and Quality Syllabus:

AS4017 Reliability and Quality Syllabus – Anna University PG Syllabus Regulation 2021

OBJECTIVES:

 Provide basic knowledge of quality and reliability in engineering
 Introduce analyses of quality concepts
 Develop skills to analyse quality culture in companies.

UNIT I FUNDEMENTALS OF RELIABILITY

Reliability engineering fundamentals- Failure data analysis, Failure rate, mortality curve, Concept of burn in period – Useful life and wear out phase of a system – Mean time to failure (MTTF) – Mean time between failure, (MTBF) and mean time to repair (MTTR) – Reliability in terms of Hazard rate and failure density, Conditional probability and multiplication rules.

UNIT II RELIABILITY OF SIMPLE SYSTEMS AND MAINTAINABILITY

Series and parallel configurations – Reliability improvement – redundancy – combined series and parallel systems – High level and low level redundancy – k-out of n system – standby redundancy. Maintainability – Factors affecting maintainability of systems – Design for maintainability – MTTR – Maintenance – spare provisioning.

UNIT III MODERN QUALITY MANAGEMENT

Definitions and Principles of Operation – Tools and Techniques – Quality Circles, 5 S Practice, Total Quality Control (TQC), Total Employee Involvement (TEI), Problem Solving Process, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), Failure Mode and Effect analysis (FMEA), Fault Tree Analysis (FTA), Kizen, Poka-Yoke, QC Tools, PDCA Cycle, Quality Improvement Tools.

UNIT IV CONTEMPORARY TRENDS

Concurrent Engineering – Lean Manufacturing, Agile Manufacturing – World Class Manufacturing – Cost of Quality (COQ) system – Bench Marking, Business Process Reengineering, Six Sigma – Basic Concept, Principle, Methodology, Implementation, Scope, Advantages and Limitation.

UNIT V CONTROL CHARTS

Control charts for individual measurements – Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) and Deviation (EWMD) charts – Control charts for variables – X-bar and R charts, X-bar and S charts – SPC – Variables Control charts- SPC – Attributer Control charts.

TOTAL: 45 PERIODS

COURSE OUTCOMES:

At the end of this course, students will be able
 Apply continuous improvement techniques and basic quality concepts in analysis
 Analyse a manufacturing process using appropriate control charts
 The student can identify different areas of Quality and Reliability Engineering.
 Can find the applications of all the areas in industry.
 Use software for SPC analysis

REFERENCES:

1. Reliability Engineering by Srinath L. S., Affiliated East West Press.
2. Quality Control & Application by B. L. Hanson & P. M. Ghare, Prentice Hall of India.
3. Montgomery D. C. – ‘Introduction to Statistical Quality Control’ – John Wiley – 2010
4. Ebeling C. – ‘An Introduction to Reliability and Maintainability Engineering’ – Tata McGraw Hill Publishing Company Ltd. – 2004.