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M, Tech. (Sem.- ltn)

QUALITY ASSURANCE & RELIABILITY ENGINEERING
SUBJECTCODE : MME - 509

PaperID : 1F.,04241
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Time : 03 Hours
Instruction to Candidatesi
1) Attempt any Five questions
2) All questionscarry equalmarks.

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Maximum Marks : 100

QI) (a) A production engineeronce remarkedthat "It is not good trying to set
quality standardsfor everything. We shouldexpectour,operatorsto use
their commonsense".How would haveansweredhim?

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(c) Differentiatebetween:

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(b) What do you understandby "value of quality" and "cost of quality"?

I{ow a balancecanbe maintainedbetweenthesetwo?

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(iii) Inspectionand Quality Control.

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(iv) Type - I error and Type - II error.

(v) C - chart and U - chart.

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Q2) (a) "Quality control is fine, but my productis different.It is not easilysubject
to control. It is too complicated".Suchtypes of remarkscamefrom a
man who sought examplesof modern statistical quality control. Is he
justified? Why or why not?
(b) Why sometimesthe frequencypolygons are preferred to frequency
histograms?
(c) Define 'Quality Circle' andexplainbasic organizationalstructureandits
elements.

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Q3) (a) Write the managementprinciplesof Quality Assuranceand show also

how QA can be implementedin variousstagesof organisation.
(b) Design a single samplinginspectionplan attributewhich will meet or
nearlymeetthe following requirementi
cr = 0.05 (producer'srisk) P',: 0.008(percentdefective)
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: 0.20 (consumer'srisk) P', : 0.04

Q4) (a) One processhaseight variablesof known importance.Anotherprocess

has fifteen variablesof known importance.Is the control chart equally
appropriate'for thesetwo processes?

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(b) From the resultsof an analysis,V' :36.0, o : 1.0.Assumethat the
processgeneratesa normal distribution.The product is being sold to
two users,who have different specificationrequirements.User A has
of 36 t 4.
of are38 * 4 anduserB hasspecifications
specifications
What proportionof the productwill not meetthe specificationsset
up by userA?

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(ii) What proportionof the productwill not meetthe specificationsset

up by user B?

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(iii) If the processis re-centeredat37, what proportionwould meetthe

specificationsset up by usersA and B both?
5Q) (a) Define samplinginspectionandexplaindoublesamplingplansandskip
lot samplingplans.

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(b) An itemis madein lotsof200 each.Thelotsaregiven 100%inspection.The

record sheetfor the first 25 lots inspectedshowedthat total of 75 items
defective
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ofdefectives.
Determinethetialconfol limitsforn-pchartshowingtheno.

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Assumethatall pointsfall within theconfol limits. What is your estimate

of the processaveragefractiondefective.

(iii) If this P remainunchanged,what is the probability that the 26'hlost

will containexactly7 defectives?
(rv) Probability,if it will contain7 ormoredefective.

Q6) (a) Define TQM asper ISO 8402and explainthe relationshipbetweenISO

9000 standardsand TQM. How both are different from eachother?
(b) Explaintheprocedureto gettheISO 9000certificationfor an organisation.
(c) Define Quality FunctionDeploymentandwrite its application.
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Q7) (a) What is mathematicalconceptof Six sigma?Show the defect rate in

PPM for 3,4,5 and6 sigmalimits.
(b) Derivethe following relations:
(i)

R(t) -

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-l nu)a,
(ii) R(t):eJ
Where R(t) - Reliability, 0: Mean life, T - requiredlife of a product and
h(t) : Hazardrate.

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QS) Write the shortnoteson the followings:

(a) Seriesandparallelreliabilify systems.
(b) fSO 9002QA standardization.
(c) Control char for attributes.

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(d) Producer'sand consumer'srisks.

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