WKO 142: MSSC Quality Practices and Measurement Course

Lecture/Theory Hours 3 Lab/Experimental Hours 2 Semester Hours 3

This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills related to quality practices and measurement in a manufacturing environment. Topics covered include participating in periodic internal quality audit activities, checking calibration of gages and other data collection equipment, suggesting continuous improvements, inspecting materials and product/processes at all stages to ensure they meet specifications, documenting the results of quality problems, communicating quality problems, take corrective actions to restore or maintain quality, record process outcomes and trends, identify fundamentals of blueprint reading, and use standard measurement systems and precision measurement tools. Students completing this course will receive an MSSC certificate in quality practices and measurement. Students completing courses WKO 141, 142, 143, and 144 will receive the Certified Production Technician credential.

Prerequisites

WKO 141