VSB - Technical University of Ostrava

Masters in Quality Management and Control of Industrial Systems

Semester 1

• Advanced Quality Management Systems
• Applied Informatics and Control
• Engineering Materials
• Foundations of Mathematical Statistics
• Managerial Economics of an Industrial Enterprise

Semester 2

• Computer control
• Diploma Seminar
• Industrial Technologies
• Quality Planning II
• Special Statistical Method
• Strategic Management

Semester 3

• Computer-Aided Quality Management II
• Diploma seminar I
• Econometrics
• Information and communication technology
• Methods of Artificial Intelligence

Semester 4

• Change Management
• Diploma seminar II
• Economic Diagnostics

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, about 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 modelling 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 can 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 based on 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, and continuity of workplaces in terms of their management and information and communication interconnection
• To monitor technological processes and develop analyses and innovation concepts of inspection and control systems according to the needs of industrial processes
• To perform advanced analyses, 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 and independently decide about the application of appropriate methods and tools of quality planning quality improvement and statistical methods. They understand the essence of industrial enterprise economics, and 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 can analyze complex production, technological and information systems, and design their control using modern control, information and communication means and methods. They master methods for parameterizing control systems to the needs of industrial and enterprise processes.

Hard skills

• Production quality management
• Methods and tools of quality management
• Orientation in regulations, legislation for metrology, quality for the Czech Republic, and legislation common in the Union
• Quality control
• Statistical methods of quality management
• Evaluation of production and pre-production processes
• Knowledge of quality monitoring and evaluation
• Financial instruments
• Knowledge in the field of production technologies
• Applied informatics and management
• Quality management
• Managerial knowledge
• Change management
• Statistical methods
• Production organization and management
• Computer support for quality management
• Industrial automation
• Business administration
• Procedures and methods of quality planning
• Quality management systems

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 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 industrial systems management and data analysis and in several management functions at various levels of organisational management.

Professions

• Quality control specialist
• Enterprise information systems specialist
• Economist in a manufacturing company
• Quality Inspector
• Process management specialist
• Industrial data analyst
• Automation systems specialist
• Quality manager
• Auditor of quality management systems
• Quality Engineer
• Industrial Engineer