Quality Management and Audits

Teaching Methodologies

Lectures, classroom exercises, group work and audit simulation.

Learning Results

It is intended to develop the objectives of the course in the area of quality and teamwork

It is intended with this curricular unit that students acquire knowledge of the most common techniques and methods of Quality Management, along with the correct understanding of the concepts underlying this management philosophy. Specifically, it is intended that students understand and apply the precepts of the ISO 9000 family of Standards and the NP EN ISO 19011 standard.

Program

1. Fundamental Concepts: Quality; Quality Control; Quality Assurance; Total Quality Management.

2. Some views on quality: The views of Deming, Crosby, and Juran.

3. Quality Management Systems: Study of the ISO 9000 Series Standards.

4. Quality Audits: Study of the ISO 19011 Standard.

5. Quality Assessment: Quality Costs.

6. Quality Improvement: Quality improvement projects; Methodologies for Quality Improvement; Quality Improvement Techniques.

Curricular Unit Teachers

João Freire de Noronha

Internship(s)

NAO

Bibliography

Apontamentos fornecidos pelo docente

Normas ISO 9000, 9001 e 19011

Bibliografia complementar

Pereira da Cruz, C., 2009. Balanced Scorecard – Concentrar uma organização no que é essencial. Grupo editorial Vida Económica.

Ramos Pires, A., 2004. Qualidade – Sistemas de Gestão da Qualidade. 3ª Edição. Edições Sílabo, Lisboa.

Robert Fey and Jean Marie Gogue, 1989. Princípios da Gestão da Qualidade, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa

Dale, B e Cooper, C., 1995. “Qualidade Total e Recursos Humanos”, Editorial Presença

Norma ISO 9004