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ASQ Course Descriptions

Each MGI home study course contains Skill Development Exercises that can be e-mailed, mailed, or faxed to your personal instructor/partner who is ready to process your exercises and answer any questions you may have.

ASQ Courses:
The ISO 9000:2000 Quality Manual: This course will teach you about the preparation and writing of the quality manual. You will learn the requirements of ISO 9000, the quality system--what and why, where to find and how to gather input, policies and procedures and how to write them, how management sets quality standards. You will also learn the about the control of design and design change, control of procurement quality, production quality control, control of non-conforming product, corrective action, operations support and service, and how to test, distribute, and maintain your ISO 9000 quality manual.
(Course no. E20, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

Conducting ISO 9000 Internal Audits: In this course you will cover the ISO 9000 Series quality system and standards, the hierarchy of ISO 9000 documentation, understanding the ISO 9001 standard, a detailed review of the ISO 9001 standard, an overview of ISO 9000 series auditing styles, and the ISO 9000 series audit cycle. The course also includes case studies

to enhance your undertanding and application skills.
(Course no. E50, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

Effective Quality Audits: This course will help you learn how to design, set up, conduct and evaluate quality audits. You will learn the benefits, purposes, and goals of audits, the administration of the audit function, conducting the systems and procedures audit, conducting the process audit, conducting the end item and in-line process audit, statistical applications to the audit, external audits, and the human factors in conducting audits. (Course no. E80, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

How to Control and Minimize Quality Costs: In this course you will learn how to find the optimum balance between prevention costs and the cost of "unquality." You will cover tracking quality costs, collecting quality costs data, presenting quality costs data, identifying quality cost improvement areas, generating direct profit, and maintaining quality progress.
(Course no. E99, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

How to Maintain and Update a Quality Manual: This course will introduce you to the development of a productive quality manual, where to find and how to gather input, policy, planning, and administration, design assurance and design change control, control of purchased material/assemblies, production quality control, user contact and field performance, corrective action, employee selection, training and motivation, as well as how to test, distribute, and maintain your quality manual.
(Course no. E94, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

How to Upgrade and Improve Supplier Performance: This course will cover beginning your supplier improvement program, how to build a basic supplier quality program, how to conduct supplier surveys and audits, effective evaluation of incoming material, how to measure supplier performance, effective supplier communications, educating your suppliers in your quality philosophy, statistical quality control and supplier process improvement, and how to install and maintain your supplier improvement program.
(Course no. E23, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

Statistical Control of Manufacturing Processes: This course consists of three volumes. Volume One deals with collecting and presenting data: arrays, dot plots, histograms, frequency distribution, normal, poisson, exponential distributions, mean, variance and standard deviation, and a six step approach to quality improvement. Volume Two covers probability basics, distributions, sampling, confidence intervals, estimating parameters, and statistical decision making. Volume Three is about acceptance sampling, control charts, regression and correlation, and experimental design & analysis of variance.
(Course no. E28, Time to Complete: 90 hours, 9.0 CEUs)

Successfully Managing the Quality Function: This course will help you to set your professional goals, determine the existing level of quality, identify the costs of quality, establish corporate quality objectives, achieve total quality assurance, assure quality through product design, obtain control of production quality, assure vendor quality, develop the quality organization, and learn how to control quality through people.
(Course no. E88, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

Your Own Consulting Business: This course provides you with the management, marketing, and organizing skills you need to become a successful engineering consultant. The course is structured around key questions such as: How do I set objectives? How do I budget? Who will be my clients and what services will I offer? What system of accounting do I need? What kinds of personnel will I need? How do I market my services? What should I do for public relations? How do I measure and improve my performance?
(Course no. E65, Time to Complete: 25 hours, 2.5 CEUs)

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