Concepts of quality systems - The total quality management system – Characteristics of the total quality management system.
The task of quality organization - organizing principles – Structural total quality organization
Introduction to iso9000 standards - ISO 9000 series - Failure costs – appraisal costs – prevention cost – avoidable and unavoidable cost.
Quality audit – policies and objectives audit of quality plans – audit of execution Vs plans – product auditing – audit methodology – quality rating – audit reporting.
Vendor relations – objectives and activities - vendor qualification process – vendor quality surveys – Vendor quality improvement – vendor quality rating and evaluation .
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Rose ,J.E., “Total Quality Management “,Kogan page Ltd ,1993
Juran, J.M.&Gryna,F.M.,”Quality Control Handbook”,Prentice Hall publications.
Feignbaum, “Total Quality Control”.
