Valid for: 2024/25
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering LTH
Decided by: PLED I
Date of Decision: 2024-04-16
Effective: 2024-05-08
Main field: Logistics and Supply Chain Management
Depth of study relative to the degree requirements: Second cycle, in-depth level of the course cannot be classified
Elective mandatory for: MLOG2
Elective for: I5-pr, I5-lf, M5-lp
Language of instruction: The course will be given in English
To do the right things and to do things right are key to all industrial enterprises that wants to remain competitive. Customers and other stakeholders expect to get an offer corresponding to their needs and requirements. Customers also expect the supplier to realize the commitments according to contract. Society expects sustainability in many dimensions – reductions in the use of scare resources, reuse and recycling of material and components, but also sustainability from a socio-economic perspective.
The purpose of this course is to provide the students with an understanding of governing principles and tools for successful Quality Management. This includes leveraging interrelations between customer needs and the enterprise’s capability to develop new products and services, ability to use existing resources for producing products and services, and to listen to the voice of the customer and the society around the business.
Concrete objectives are to offer the students:
Knowledge and understanding
For a passing grade the student must
Competences and skills
For a passing grade the student must
The course content is described by the purpose and learning outcomes above.
Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5) - (Fail, Three, Four, Five)
Assessment: The performance assessment is based on a written final exam and compulsory group assignments. The assignments are examined through written reports and oral presentations.
The examiner, in consultation with Disability Support Services, may deviate from the regular form of examination in order to provide a permanently disabled student with a form of examination equivalent to that of a student without a disability.
Modules
Code: 0124. Name: Project.
Credits: 0.0. Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5).
Assessment: Final exam, take home assignments and Project assignment
Code: 0224. Name: Take Home Assignments.
Credits: 0.0. Grading scale: UG - (U, G).
Assessment: Compulsory assignments
Code: 0324. Name: Written Final Exam.
Credits: 7.5. Grading scale: TH - (U, 3, 4, 5).
Assessment: Written final exam
Admission requirements:
Course coordinator: Danja R. Sonntag,
danja.sonntag@iml.lth.se
Teacher: Bertil Nilsson,
Bertil.Nilsson@iml.lth.se
Course homepage: https://www.pm.lth.se