Master in Quality Management and Control of Industrial Systems
VSB - Technical University of Ostrava
Key Information
Campus location
Ostrava, Czech Republic
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
CZK 50,000 / per semester *
Application deadline
Request info
Earliest start date
Sep 2024
* tuition fee is 4000 EUR per academic year, payable at the beginning of each academic year. It is non-refundable.
Introduction
The aim of the study program Quality Management and Control of Industrial Systems is to educate middle and top managers of manufacturing companies, design, research, development, and other specialized institutions, especially for the industrial sphere of metallurgy and mechanical engineering, in relation to the automotive industry. The study is based on a balanced synergistic combination of quality management knowledge, managerial and economic knowledge, and knowledge of modern control, information, and communication technologies. Graduates of the study program will find employment as quality managers or quality engineers, as specialists in the field of process control using progressive control, information and communication technologies, and in a number of management functions at various levels of organization management.
Key facts
- Faculty: Faculty of Materials Science and Technology
- Type of study: Follow-up Master
- Language of instruction: English
- Code of the program: N0413A270003
- Title of the program: Quality Management and Control of Industrial Systems
- Regular period of the study: 2 years
- Cost: 50,000 CZK per semester
- Coordinating department: Department of Quality Management
- Coordinator prof. Ing. Jiří Plura, CSc.
- Key words quality management intelligent control industrial systems industrial statistics business economics
Program Outcome
Study aims
The aim of the study program Quality Management and Control of Industrial Systems is to educate middle and top managers of manufacturing companies, design, research, development and other specialized institutions, especially for the industrial sphere of metallurgy and mechanical engineering, in relation to the automotive industry. The study is based on a balanced synergistic combination of quality management knowledge, managerial-economic knowledge and modern control, information and communication technologies. This knowledge and skills create the prerequisites for executing managerial positions in the context of advancing automation, robotics and manufacturing within the Industry 4.0 concept.
Graduate's knowledge
Graduates of study program:
- demonstrate knowledge of the nature of industrial technology management with an emphasis on knowledge interdisciplinarity;
- demonstrate knowledge of advanced concepts, approaches, methods, and tools of modern quality management;
- demonstrate knowledge of quality planning and quality improvement methods;
- demonstrate knowledge of selected statistical methods for quality management and industrial systems management;
- know the principles, methods, and tools of the business economy and advanced management of economic systems in the area of industrial technologies;
- know the financial and economic management of an industrial enterprise and its links to the business environment;
- demonstrate knowledge of conventional and unconventional modeling methods, technical measurement and experimental methods, and optimal control;
- demonstrate knowledge of the principles of complex industrial systems control based on programmable logic controllers, enterprise information systems and modern management methods including artificial intelligence methods.
Graduate's skills
Graduates of the study program are able independently and creatively:
- to solve aspects of the development of advanced quality management systems, including the application of the special requirements of different industries;
- to apply on the basis of knowledge of the nature of industrial technologies, especially metallurgical, engineering, and automotive industry, tools from the area of quality management and economic and financial management of the company;
- to draw up a business entity strategy and a strategy for quality planning and improvement;
- to select and apply appropriate methods of planning and improving the quality of products and processes;
- to select and apply appropriate statistical methods for quality management and industrial systems management;
- to apply tools from the area of economic and financial management of the company;
- to participate in teamwork, but also lead creative teams in solving industrial management problems on an industrial application and basic research;
- to propose an optimal arrangement of machines and fixtures, material flow, continuity of workplaces in terms of their management and information and communication interconnection;
- to monitor technological processes and develop analyzes and innovation concepts of inspection and control systems according to the needs of industrial processes;
- to perform advanced analyzes, design, and implementation of industrial process control systems for industrial companies through the application of modern computer, measurement, and automation tools.
Graduate's general competence
Graduates possess general competencies to the extent defined by national descriptors of the Czech qualification framework with an emphasis on communication, management, and organizational skills, communication in at least one foreign language, etc. Graduates are prepared to creatively solve theoretical and practical aspects of advanced quality management systems, independently decide about the application of appropriate methods and tools of quality planning and quality improvement and statistical methods. They understand the essence of industrial enterprise economics, they have an overview of strategy creation, management, processes in industrial enterprise, approaches to management and financing of enterprise, and monitoring and evaluation of its economic activity. They are able to analyze complex production, technological and information systems, design their control using modern control, information, and communication means and methods. They master methods for parameterizing control systems in accordance with the needs of industrial and enterprise processes.
Career Opportunities
Graduate's Employment
Graduates of the Quality Management and Control of Industrial Systems program will find employment especially in manufacturing organizations, but also in non-manufacturing organizations, such as engineering or business. They work as quality managers or quality engineers in various industries. They will also find employment in the field of modernization of process control using progressive control, information and communication technologies, as well as in the creation and use of advanced information and communication technologies and in the implementation and administration of business management and information systems. They will also find employment in specialist positions for the application of selected methods of quality management and industrial systems management and data analysis and in a number of management functions at various levels of organization management.
Professions
- Process management specialist
- Auditor of quality management systems
- Enterprise information systems specialist
- Industrial engineer
- Quality engineer
- Quality manager
- Economist in manufacturing company
- Automation systems specialist
- Quality inspector
- Quality control specialist
- Industrial data analyst
Hard skills
- Managerial knowledge
- Evaluation of production and pre-production processes
- Industrial automation
- Methods and tools of quality management
- Statistical methods of quality management
- Quality management
- Quality management systems
- Knowledge of quality monitoring and evaluation
- Business administration
- Financial instruments
- Quality control
- Production quality management
- Orientation in regulations, legislation for metrology, quality for the Czech Republic, and legislation common in the Union
- Procedures and methods of quality planning
- Computer support for quality management
- Applied informatics and management
- Knowledge in the field of production technologies
- Change management
- Statistical methods
- Production organization and management
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Admissions
Program Tuition Fee
Curriculum
Semester 1
Compulsory
- Advanced Quality Management Systems
- Applied Informatics and Control
- Engineering Materials
- Foundations of Mathematical Statistics
- Managerial Economics of an Industrial Enterprise
Optional
- Basic Winter Sports Course 1. Master degree
- Physical education 1. Master degree A
- Physical education 1. Master degree B
- Company English I
- English Language for Foreigners c/I
- English Language for Foreigners c/II
Semester 2
Compulsory
- Computer control
- Diploma Seminar
- Industrial Technologies
- Quality Planning II
- Special Statistical Methods
- Strategic Management
Optional
- Basic Summer Sports Course 1. Master degree
- English Language for Foreigners c/I
- English Language for Foreigners c/II
Semester 3
Compulsory
- Computer-Aided Quality Management II
- Diploma seminar I
- Econometrics
- Information and communication technology
- Methods of Artificial Intelligence
Optional
- Company English I
- English Language for Foreigners c/I
- English Language for Foreigners c/II
Semester 4
Compulsory
- Change Management
- Diploma seminar II
- Economic Diagnostics
Optional
- English Language for Foreigners c/I
- English Language for Foreigners c/II