Course detail
Reliability and Quality
ÚSI-RTSAJAcad. year: 2020/2021
The course covers the issues concerned with the reliability of systems with independent and dependent elements and the application of statistical methods in reliability assessment. Students will also learn about back-up processes, reliability management methods, breakdown prevention and the creation of fault-tolerant systems. In addition, the course deals with the implementation of quality systems in electrical engineering and the issues with current quality assurance approaches.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- define the basic concepts of quality and reliability,
- explain the basic problems of reliability,
- explain the construction of a corporate quality system,
- describe the basic quality management tools,
- explain the issues of quality system certification and product certification,
- calculate the basic indicators of reliability.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
laboratories. Students must submit a single project/assignment during the course.
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
up to 80 points from a written examination.
The test focuses on the quality and reliability issues discussed in the lectures and seminars.
Course curriculum
2. Markov processes. Markov's reliability models.
3. Static reserve, TMR and NMR systems.
4. Dynamic reserve, duplex and biduplex system. Hybrid reserve.
5. Failure models, fault tree analysis.
6. Methods of reliability management.
7. Prevention of failures. Introduction of quality system in electrotechnical manufacturing.
8. Development of a quality system in organizations. The introduction of a system of quality assurance. Quality system documentation in organizations.
9. Quality system documentation in organizations.
10. Economic problems connected with quality. The structure of quality-related costs in the product lifecycle.
11.Development of a quality system in organizations. Audits.
12. Relation between quality and the reliability of products. Certification.
13. Evaluation of quality in the CR.
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Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
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Basic literature
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