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QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS Single discipline educational activity
Course Sheet Academic Year of enrolment:
Professor and Collaborators:
Hours of classroom activity:
Prerequisites:
There is no prerequisite for this course.
Objectives
Contents Definition and evolution of the concept of quality. Historical evolution of the main models of quality management. The great theoreticians of quality. Customer satisfaction. The management of the continuous improvement activity. The process-related approach. Quality in services. The Quality Management System and certification standards. The QFD (Quality Function Deployment). Integration of quality, environment and safety. The quality of human capital.
Extended Syllabus Modulo A - 6 CFU
TTQ_1 - Quality: concepts and methods
TTQ_2 - Quality: Models and Vision 2000
• Evolution of the concept of Quality and of the management models
• Main models for Quality Management
• From product control to process control
• From Quality as a characteristic to Quality as a value
• Principles and methods of TQM
• Assessment and self-assessment systems of Quality awards
• The 6 Gurus of Quality
TTQ_3 - The ISO 9001 standard
TTQ_4 - Auditing of Quality Management Systems
TTQ_5 - Methods, techniques and tools for Quality improvement
• Problem Finding and Problem Solving
• The 7 tools of Ishikawa
• Quality improvement tools of first, second and third necessity
• The 6 sigma
TTQ_6 - Consumers’ trends and Social Innovations
TTQ_7 - Social Life Cycle Assessment (S-LCA)
• The real Quality: human capital
Modulo B – 3 CFU
TTQ_8 - Il Quality Function Deployment (QFD)
TTQ_9 - Quality in services (Servqual, etc.)
TTQ_10 - The Kano and A-Kano models
Recommended Bibliography
Methods of Provision
Teaching Methods Lectures (of 2 hours, following the academic calendar) and active teaching methods: assignments, group and individual working, seminars held by experts, etc. Attendance is optional but recommended. The final exam will be the same both for attendees and not.
Evaluation methods Verification of learning:
The preparation of the students will be verified via a written exam consisting of open questions with a predefined response space. The total points (max 30) will be subdivided based on the questions that are presented in the test for their importance and extension. The duration of the written test is 20 minutes. An oral exam is also scheduled in order to complete the exam.
The verification of learning will be consistent with the training objectives and the adopted teaching methods.
Contacts/More Information Phone number: 085 4537940 e-mail: l.petti@unich.it Office days and hours: Wednesdays 9:00-11:00; Thursdays 11:00-13:00