Applied Quality and Standards - Northampton County Area Community College

Applied Quality and Standards from Northampton County Area Community College is a Campus Associate Quality Management degree that prepares you for a Business career. Program Narrative Today\\\'s manufacturing environment is clean, fast-paced and always changing to stay competitive. Manufacturing today also requires more technical knowledge than in the past. That\\\'s why it is important to stay on top of the latest trends and methods involved in manufacturing, technology , and continuous quality improvement. For those just entering the field, it\\\'s also vital to have hands-on operating skills specific to at least one area of manufacturing. We developed our Applied Quality and Standards program with the assistance of local manufacturing experts. Their input assures that graduates of our program are highly skilled and knowledgeable in today\\\'s manufacturing and quality assurance practices. Graduates new to manufacturing will gain a new set of skills and knowledge qualifying them as machine operators, quality inspectors or technicians , and manufacturing engineering technicians. Existing manufacturing personnel who graduate from this program will become better qualified as technicians , auditors, supervisors and managers of Quality , manufacturing group leaders, and process technicians. Program Features The program focuses on providing practical industry-specific training in well-equipped manufacturing and quality assurance labs. While students study areas of Quality such as Total Quality Management, statistical process control , ISO 9000 standards, and auditing, they also learn to apply this knowledge to specific types of manufacturing through hands-on technical electives. If you have existing skills in manufacturing, you may be able to gain credit through testing to challenge the technical electives requirement. The associate\\\'s degree program includes a series of required general education courses. These classes prepare you to assume a greater role in working with people and other departments in your organization. The well-rounded education you receive increases your potential to grow into supervisory or management positions. The work-based internship near the end of the degree program can be carried out with your employer or with another approved organization. During your internship, you\\\'ll apply your manufacturing and quality skills and knowledge to a production or process operation, experiencing the dynamics found only in an actual organization. Program Outcomes Graduates of the program will: Demonstrate an ability to work independently and collaboratively. Interpret international quality standards and specifications and apply them to a quality system within an organization. Demonstrate proficient research and computer skills in data gathering and analysis. Analyze and present data in an acceptable and standardized manner. Solve common manufacturing or service quality-related problems using both a reactive and proactive approach. Demonstrate competent technical writing skills. Demonstrate competent speaking skills when working with diverse groups. Demonstrate a basic framework of technical vocabulary and graphic interpretation applicable to quality technology and a specific industrial process or service. Demonstrate observational, integrative, and synthetic skills. Demonstrate the proper use and care of common mechanical metrology and calibration tools, instruments and equipment. Apply basic \\\"Quality\\\" philosophy, methodology and \\\"statistical thinking\\\" to the continuous quality improvement system in an organization. Describe the key process elements and technology commonly found in various types of manufacturing operations such as foundries, electronics, food and drug packaging, plastics molding, machining, etc. or various types of service organizations. Demonstrate the basic process methodology, equipment operation, and application of industry quality standards found in a specific manufacturing industry such as electronics, food and drug packaging, plastics molding, or machining or a specific service industry such as insurance, banking or health-care. Demonstrate proper application of mathematics to solving quality process-related problems. Apply costing concepts and methods to decisions in implementing design and quality related practices and technology in an organization. View more details on Northampton County Area Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Quality Management courses.