Unit – Measurement Standards and Design of Gauges (Chapters - 1, 2, 3, 4) Principles of Engineering metrology, Measurement standards, Types and sources of errors, Accuracy and Precision, Concept and procedure, traceability, Geometric Form Straightness, Flatness, Roundness - Straight edge, use of level beam comparator, autocollimator, testing of flatness of surface plate. Design of Tolerances, Limits and Fits [IS 919-1993], Taylor’s principle, Types of gauges, Wear allowance on gauges, Types of gauges-plain plug gauge, ring gauge, snap gauge, limit gauge and gauge materials, Considerations of gauge design (numerical). Unit - Comparators, Thread and Gear Metrology, Surface Roughness Measurement (Chapters - 5, 6, 7, 8) Mechanical, Pneumatic, Optical, Electrical (LVDT). Measurement of Thread Thread form errors, Measurement of Minor, Major and Effective diameter (Three Wire Method), Flank angle and Pitch, Floating Carriage Micrometer (Numerical). Gear Errors in Spur Gear form, Gear tooth Vernier, Constant chord, Base tangent (Numerical), Gear Rolling Tester. Profile Projector, Tool maker’s microscope and their applications. Surface Roughness Introduction to Surface texture, Parameters for measuring surface roughness, Surface roughness measuring TalySurf. Unit - Advances in Metrology (Chapters - 9, 10) Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM): Fundamental features of CMM – development of CMMs – role of CMMs – types of CMM and Applications, - types of probes Machine Vision vision system measurement - Multisensory systems. Principle, NPL Interferometer Laser Basic concepts of lasers, advantages of lasers, laser interferometers, types, applications. Unit - Introduction to Quality and Quality Tools (Chapter - 11) Concept of Various Definitions and Quality Statements, Cost of quality & value of quality, Deming’s cycles & 14 Points, Juran Trilogy approach, Old New Seven Tools, Quality Circles. Importance of Quality Deployment at Design and Manufacturing Opportunities for improvement product design, Importance of– initial planning for quality, concept of self-controls – defining quality responsibilities on the factory flow - self inspection. Unit - Statistical quality control (Chapters - 12, 13) Statistical quality Statistical concept, Frequency diagram, Concept of variance analysis, Control Chart for Variable (X & R Chart) & Attribute (P & C Chart), Process capability( cp, cpk, ppk), Statistical Process Control (Numerical). Production Part Approval Method (PPAP). Acceptance Sampling Inspection, OC Curve and its characteristics, sampling methods, Sampling Single, Double (Numerical), Multiple, Comparison of Plan, calculation of sample size, AOQ, Probability of Acceptance (Numerical) Unit - Total Quality Management (Chapter - 14) Introduction, Quality Function Deployment, 5S, Kaizen, Poka yoke, Kanban, JIT, FMECA, Zero defects, TPM. Six DMAIC - Concept and Applications. Quality Management Need for quality management system – design of quality management system - quality management system requirements – ISO 9001, TS-16949, ISO-14000, Quality Audit.