Total Quality Management - II

By Prof. Raghu Nandan Sengupta | IIT Kanpur

Learners enrolled: 1144

This is the second part of the two part course (TQM-I, TQM-II) and will cover topics ranging from Quality Engineering, Quality Function Development, Introduction to Design of Experiments, Process Optimization and Robust Product Design, Steps to Six Sigma, Management of Quality, its ultimate philosophy, etc.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Masters in Business Administration, Masters in Economics, Masters in Statistics/Mathematics, Masters in Industrial Engineering, Masters in Operations Research/Operations Management, Phd in related fields as mentioned above

PREREQUISITE : Probability & Statistics

INDUSTRY SUPPORT : All service, manufacturing, industry, government department, any type of private industry

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Management Studies Operations
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate/Postgraduate
Start Date :	26 Jul 2021
End Date :	17 Sep 2021
Enrollment Ends :	09 Aug 2021
Exam Date :	26 Sep 2021 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Quality Engineering, Quality Function Deployment

Week 2 : Quality Function Deployment, Introduction to Design of Experiments

Week 3 : Introduction to Design of Experiments

Week 4 : Introduction to Design of Experiments

Week 5 : Introduction to Design of Experiments, Process Optimization and Robust Product Design

Week 6 : Process Optimization and Robust Product Design

Week 7 : Process Optimization and Robust Product Design, Steps to Six Sigma

Week 8 : Steps to Six Sigma, Management of Quality, its ultimate philosophy

Books and references

Introduction of Statistical Quality Control: Douglas C. Montgomery, John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN: 978-0-470-16992-6
Total Quality Management: Dale H. Besterfield , Hemant Urdhwareshe , Mary Besterfield-Sacre , Carol Besterfield-Michna , Rashmi Urdhwareshe , Glen H. Besterfield, Pearson, ISBN: 978-81-7758-412-7
Design of Experiment: Douglas C. Montgomery, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN: 0-471-31649-0

Instructor bio

Prof. Raghu Nandan Sengupta

IIT Kanpur

Prof. Raghu Nandan Sengupta completed his bachelors in engineering in Mechanical Engineering from Birla Institute of Technology Mesra, Ranchi INDIA and his FPM (PhD) from Indian Institute of Management Calcutta, INDIA with specialization in Operations Management. His research interests are in Sequential Analysis, Statistical & Mathematical Reliability, Optimization and its use in Financial Optimization. His research work has been published in journals like Metrika, European Journal of Operational Research, Sequential Analysis, Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Communications in Statistics: Simulation & Computation, Quantitative Finance, etc. At Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, INDIA he is a Professor in the Industrial & Management Engineering department and teaches courses like Probability & Statistics, Stochastic Processes & their Applications, Management Decision Analysis, Financial Risk Management, etc. He is also the recipient of IUSSTF Fellowship 2008 and visited Operations Research & Financial Engineering department at Princeton University, USA, ERASMUS MUNDUS Fellowship 2011 to Warsaw University, POLAND, EU-NAMASTE Fellowship 2015 to IST, University of Lisboa, PORTUGAL, DAAD Fellowship 2015 to TU Dresden, GERMANY.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 26 September 2021 Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100

Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75. If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.

Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur .It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.

Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies will not be dispatched.

Once again, thanks for your interest in our online courses and certification. Happy learning.

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