Start: To define.
DESCRIPTION:
The ASQ certified quality process analyst is a professional who, in support and under the direction of quality engineers or supervisors, analyzes and resolves quality problems and is involved in quality improvement projects.
CONTENT:
Quality concepts and tools
- Quality concepts:
- Quality planning.
- Standards, requirements and quality specifications.
- Quality costs.
- Quality documentation.
- Quality audits:
- Types of audit.
- Components of the audit.
- Audit roles and responsibilities.
- Quality tools.
- Team dynamics:
- Types of equipment.
- Techniques for team growth.
- Team roles and responsibilities.
- Conflicts.
- Training and evaluation.
- Ethics and professional conduct.
Troubleshooting and improvement
- Continuous improvement models.
- Techniques for process improvement:
- Six Sigma.
- Lean
- Bechmarking
- Tools for quality and project management:
- Basic tools for quality management.
- Tools for project management.
- Taguchi loss function.
Analysis of data
- Terms and definitions:
- Basic statistics.
- Basic distributions.
- Probability concepts.
- Concepts of reliability.
- Measurement scales.
- Types of data and collection methods.
- Sampling.
- Measurement System Analysis (MSA).
- Statistical process control (SPC):
- Control and specification limits.
- Control charts for attributes.
- Control charts for variables.
- Process capacity measures.
- Common and special causes of variation.
- Data graphs.
- Advanced statistical analysis.
- Regression and correlation models.
- Hypothesis testing.
- Design of experiments (DoE).
- Analysis of variance (ANOVA).
Customer – supplier relationships
- Internal and external clients and suppliers.
- Methods for customer satisfaction.
- Approval systems for products and processes.
- Supply Management.
- Identification, traceability and status of materials.
- Preventive and corrective actions:
- Preventive actions.
- Corrective actions.