Process Quality Engineering

Description: This self-directed course focuses on introducing new students to the supports, services, and opportunities available at Conestoga College. By the end of this course, students will understand the academic expectations of the Conestoga learning environment, as well as the supports available to ensure their academic success. Students will also be able to identify on-campus services that support their health and wellness, and explore ways to get actively involved in the Conestoga community through co-curricular learning opportunities.

• Hours: 1
• Credits: 0
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

Introduces the philosophy and guiding principles that represent the foundation of a continuously improving organization. Addresses the roles of leadership, strategic planning and deployment to exceed customer expectations. Additional topics include the role of teams and associated processes to maximize profitability.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: This course will review the nature of measurement systems and introduce advanced analytical concepts used to evaluate them. The concept of measurement uncertainty will be examined in detail. Students will learn about the various studies that can gauge the extent of variation within measurement results and what the sources of the variation are. This analysis will be extended to include the concepts of understanding process capability and how such capability can be investigated and analyzed using standard techniques.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description: Quality Planning is a structured method of defining, analyzing and establishing the necessary activities to assure that a product or service will meet or exceed customer expectations. This course uses the Juran and Quality Function Deployment methodologies for the introduction of new products. Management of suppliers, in the context of introducing new products and improving performance is included.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: No cost.

Description:

This course will demonstrate how two complementary continual improvement philosophies have been combined to provide a methodology that achieves rapid improvements in customer satisfaction, cost, quality and process speed. Through the application of a structured approach students will learn how to reduce waste, minimize defects and eliminate non-value-added activities in any manufacturing or transactional process.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $138.00

Description:

This course builds on existing knowledge of software to translate quality issues into information to facilitate data mining. Students will examine scenarios and case studies to build, assess, and deploy different data manipulation models to gain insights and solve problems, using advanced software skills.

• Hours: 42
• Credits: 3
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $90.00

Description: This course introduces statistical techniques to evaluate quality and analyze processes and products to, solve manufacturing and business problems, establish and evaluate specifications and tolerances and reduce product and service variability. A major focus of this course is the development of a deep understanding of process behaviour.

• Hours: 56
• Credits: 4
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• Estimated required text and/or learning resource costs: $120.00