Role of Applied Statistics in the Teaching of Quality

There have been going on a 4-semester long quality engineer/specialist postgraduate course at Óbuda University Bánki Donát Faculty of Mechanical and Safety Engineering for 15 years. During the education there is strong emphasis on the use of the quality tools, technics as well as applied statistical tools in practice.
The conformance of the quality of a product or a service is one of the most important goals of the firm. Data collection, evaluation of data and improvement, development of various processes are important tools in order to reach this aim. Decision-making based upon facts and data is essential in the course of actuation of quality management systems. These decisions could be made by means of applied statistical methods.
Higher-level statistical knowledge is important and necessary in the following fields of quality assurance: acceptance sampling, statistical process control, analysis of measurement systems and design of experiments. Accordingly the acquirement of statistical tools is so important to our postgraduate students in order to be able to use these widely spread methods in practice during their work.