Advanced Diploma in Quality
Manufacturing, Engineering and Technology - Manufacturing and Assembly
Purpose and Rationale
Purpose
The purpose of the Advanced Diploma in Quality is to prepare learners from the production and service environments to become quality practitioners, specializing in quality tools and techniques. The qualification aims to equip learners with the knowledge, skills, and competencies necessary to implement, maintain, and improve quality in their respective working environments. It is designed to develop proficient individuals who possess the attitudes, insight, and skills required for quality management. The curriculum enables learners to apply theoretical principles, evidence-based techniques, practical experience, and appropriate skills in an independent manner across various settings.
Rationale
The qualification was developed to address the changing business landscape and the shortage of individuals with management knowledge and skills in the public and private sectors. This program is intended to cater to learners from both production and service environments, with a focus on quality technologies and methodologies. The target audience includes individuals in junior/middle management positions or those aspiring to such roles, seeking to enhance their promotional prospects by obtaining this qualification. The curriculum aims to contribute to the development of the business sector by providing quality and professional consultancy services.
Industry-based learner projects are incorporated to support small to medium-scale industries in implementing effective quality techniques. The qualification enriches learners' knowledge with critical skills pertinent to today's industry, particularly in quality management techniques, research methods, and quality tools. It enhances learners' understanding of research processes, principles, and develops their applied competence, including the analysis and interpretation of research findings. By completing this qualification, learners are prepared to make meaningful contributions to an organization's quality systems and utilize quality tools and techniques effectively.
Outcomes
- Implement a quality management system.
- Apply relevant quality principles to resolve problems and to introduce change within a quality system.
- Use resources with limited accountability for the decisions and actions of others in varied and inappropriate quality contexts.
- Act ethically and professionally within a quality improvement team context as well as individually.
- Facilitate collaborative learning processes and continued development.
- Apply quality management standards, statutory and regulatory requirements.
- Develop research projects to manage quality data within a familiar quality context through the application of research methods.
Assessment Criteria
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 1:
- Discuss quality management terms, concepts, facts, principles, rules, definitions, standards, requirements correctly.
- Explain quality theories and principles in the context of a quality system.
- Interpret applications and theories of quality systems, statistics, and quality auditing.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 2:
- Interpret the principles of auditing, statistics, quality, and the methods to address challenges pertaining a quality system.
- Conduct simulated opening meeting, quality auditing procedures, and closing meetings.
- Apply statistical quality control with the aid of process control charts.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 3:
- Produce well-defined arguments to solve quality-related problems.
- Use quality principle-driven arguments to take full responsibility for decisions.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 4:
- Portray leadership abilities within a team context by conducting group activities that address communication skills, interpersonal skills, conflict handling, decision making.
- Identify appropriate ethical values and approaches within a quality environment.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 5:
- Identify learning needs in a self-directed manner.
- Develop group activities involving knowledge sharing through a collaborative effort.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 6:
- Explain systems requirement comprehensively.
- Use quality-driven arguments to sustain and improve the quality system.
- Integrate quality management system with other associate standards.
Associated Assessment Criteria for Exit Level Outcome 7:
- Maintain appropriate processes of data gathering.
- Validate the source independently, evaluate and disseminate information, and communicating ideas and opinions in well-formulated arguments.
- Report on research findings accurately.
Integrated Assessment:
- Formative Assessment: Project reports, case studies, assignments.
- Summative Assessment: Examination.
Qualification Details
- Type
- Advanced Diploma
- NQF Level
- 07
- Min. Credits
- 120
- SAQA Source
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