First Time in Egypt
Crash Course
in
Acceptance Sampling
Schemes (AQL)
From 7 to 8 April, 2013
Ain Shams University
In Collaboration with
International Center for Etudes (ICE)
Offer
Acceptance Sampling Schemes (AQL)
Certificate
Prepared & Presented by:
Ing. Joseph Micallef
Engineering & Quality Management Consultant
Acceptance Sampling Schemes (AQL)
Workshop Overview:
This course is intended to present statistical sampling schemes generally used in industry for the
determination of acceptance or otherwise of batch production or supplies.
In many instances one may find the need to assess the quality of the product after it has been produced.
Acceptance Sampling Techniques are very widely used in this regard. By correctly applying these
techniques one can enable a sound and appropriate decision to be taken.
A number of applications require that we determine the status of the work once it is complete, or at a
predetermined stage within the process. Such instances may include for example:
- Delivery of raw material
- Intermediate stages within a process (work-in-progress)
- Semi-finished product or subassemblies
- End of line verifications
- Finished product
-Outgoing product audit or certification
But the list may be much longer. Once the batch of work (material, product, data, etc) is generated, the
status of the batch may be determined using statistical methods. Before progressing on to the next stage
of the process, be it the next value-adding stage or shipping to customer, the power of statistical
sampling can be utilised to indicate the level of goodness within the batch presented.
This is a reactive system for quality control. This means that one is determining the status of a batch, or
lot, after it is produced or generated. Faults determined at this stage may render the batch or lot
unacceptable to proceed, or too expensive/prohibitive to repair or rework.
Such statistically valid sampling schemes are defined by the relevant standards. BS6001-1:1999 is
discussed during this presentation.
A number of industry examples are covered throughout this programme to demonstrate the relevance of
statistically sampling lots originating from a wide range of applications.
Acceptance Sampling Schemes (AQL)
Target Outcome:
After completing the course, candidates will be able to:
- understand the benefits and disadvantages of adopting a reactive quality control system
- understand the key concepts of acceptance sampling and its implementation
- apply acceptance sampling techniques to batch applications.
Course Preliminaries:
It would be beneficial if participants attending this course have had previous exposure to batch
situations and appreciate some basic mathematical foundations at entry level. Otherwise no particular
prerequisites are foreseen for this course.
Who Should Attend?
This course is intended for personnel interested in implementing quality control systems and is well
suited to be accompanied by the Statistical Process Control course as a complementary and very
powerful tool.
It is anticipated that quality assurance and quality control practitioners, should stand to gain in this
regard.
Typical target audience for this topic are:
- Stores receiving goods personnel
- Process quality technicians and lab personnel
- Process quality engineers
- Outgoing product/service auditors
Acceptance Sampling Schemes (AQL)
Course Outline:
Workshop Methodology
An interactive approach shall be adopted in the delivery of this workshop. Whilst this course may sound
full of complex mathematical statistical theory, it is nothing of this sort! This workshop covers only slight
and useful statistical theories, and does so without the unnecessary complexity that the topic of
statistics is normally associated with. On the contrary, this is a highly practical workshop with a delivery
style that is highly accommodating for participants to cover this subject.
Some simplified yet practical exercises shall be taken during the workshop to better demonstrate the
principles behind this subject.
A number of industry applications shall also be discussed
Course Programme, Duration and Topics
This course is designed to run for 10 hours with a number of practical exercises to cover the subject.
The programme covered shall include:
- Introduction to Acceptance Sampling
- Acceptable Quality Level
- Operating Characteristics Curves
- Sampling
- Single Sampling
- Double Sampling
- Switch Sampling
- Conclusion
Acceptance Sampling Schemes (AQL)
Your Workshop Facilitator:
Ing. Joseph Micallef – Consultant Engineer
B.Elec.Eng.(Hons.), Eur.Ing., C.Eng., MIET
Joseph Micallef is an engineer by profession who originates from the manufacturing and operations
sectors. Bringing with him more than 20 years of experience, he has occupied various senior
management positions in Research and Development, Quality Assurance and Health and Safety, and as
a consulting engineer he has coached a broad portfolio of clients from the various business sectors in
achieving and implementing improvement initiatives in their operating mechanisms. The various
projects and assignments include: mentoring and leading clients to build up quality management
systems that are certified to ISO9001:2008 standards; developed organisational documented systems,
implemented Statistical Process Control tools and techniques on various processes, typically plastics
processing and electronics assembly processes; facilitated various error reduction and quality
improvement programmes; conducted operations process reviews, mapping out processes in view of
eliminating non-value adding activities (waste elimination programmes); enabling reengineering of
organisations’ activities, improving efficiency and effectiveness, and several others. A regular speaker
and facilitator at various conferences, workshops and seminars, Joseph is a member of a number of
engineering institutions such as the Chamber of Engineers (Malta), The Institute of Engineering and
Technology (UK), the European Federation of National Engineering Institutions (FEANI), a registered
Chartered Engineer through the Engineering Council in the UK, and an active board member on the
Malta Engineering Board.
Acceptance Sampling Schemes (AQL)
Fees:
Egyptians or Foreign Residents: 3900 EGP
Non- Egyptians: 2000 U$
Special Offers:
Early Registration Offers: up to 10% Discount
Offers for Groups: up to 25% Discount
To register, please contact Ms. Maha Mandour at;
Tel: +2 0122 740 2581 , Email: info@ice-egypt.net
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