Essential Skills required for Quality engineer | Quality engineer mandatory knowledge

R.K Verma

5/9/2023

Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work

In previous article we have discussed about role and responsibilities of quality department. what are the various functions of quality department like Quality Planning, Quality Assurance, Quality Control, Quality Improvement. Also we discussed the various activities that are to performed in these functions. Now in this article we will discuss that how these activities should be done. There is need of Essential skills that are required for quality engineers to complete all these activities. Topic covered are :-

  • Essential skills required for quality engineer

  • Drawing reading capability

  • Knowledge of TMMEs (Testing monitoring & measuring equipmets) working

  • Knowledge of preparation of inspection report

  • Non Conformity (NC) writing and closure

  • Knowledge of quality tools

  • Knowledge of quality improvement tools

Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work
Quality engineer skills, Sklls required for quality engineer, Quality department skills to work

Essential skills required for Quality engineer

To maintain quality of product to be manufactured, there are some certain skills that must be required. Below are the some essential skills that must be required by quality engineers or they must have these qualities to perform all quality related activities effectively. We will discuss all these required skills one by one in detail :

  • Drawing Reading Capability

  • TMMEs Working

  • Inspection Report

  • Non-Conformity Knowledge

  • Quality Tools

  • Improvement Tools 

Drawing Reading Capability

During product manufacturing different operations are performed on part to produce it as per requirement or specifications. These specifications are mentioned on Manufacturing drawing in term of various symbols, tolerances, notes & description. So for a quality engineer, understanding of these symbols, tolerances are very important to do the inspection of part accurately otherwise there is high chance of error during the inspection of manufactured part.

TMMEs Working

Inspection of manufacturing part is carried out with the help of various Testing and Measuring equipments. Working knowledge of these equipments is very important. So, Quality engineer must have the working knowledge i.e how to use these equipments like Vernier scale, Micrometer, Height gauge, Inside micrometer and many more equipments. With the help of these equipments an inspection report can be prepared. 

Inspection Report writing 

After Inspection of manufacturing part with the help of various Testing and Measuring equipments. Now it is time to prepare inspection report. Inspection report gives us the confirmation of part status i.e whether it is accepted or not. So, report writing is very important. There are few following things which need to be take care in mind while report writing :-

  • Inspection report should be well defined.

  • It covers all the required dimensions that are mentioned in drawing.

  • Writing should be legible.  

  • Report must be signed and approved

Non-Conformity - NC Handling

During the inspection stage, the material or part which is as per drawing specifications is accepted and it forwarded to further stages but the material or part which is not as per drawing specifications is rejected. This rejection or non acceptance is called Non-conformity of material or part. Now the quality engineer deals with NC product and initiate NC report which has all the information regarding non acceptance as per following sequence : 

  • Non-conformity identification

  • Filling of Non-conformity report

  • Take the correction

  • Find out route cause of problem on RCA report

  • Find out possible preventive action

  • Validate prevetive action and close the Non-Conformity report

Knowledge of Quality Tools

This is the one of the critical function of quality department as this function diagnose the process or system which are already in working. After setting up of all the manufacturing, inspection & monitoring processes it is must to analyze the working of these processes or system. There is requirement to check whether the processes are effective and giving desired result or not. So for this, there are certain quality tools which help to analyze the performance of processes which are listed below : 

  • MSA - Measurement system analysis

  • SPC - Stastical process control

Knowledge of Improvement Tools

This is highest level of quality department. During the analysis phase, always there are some gaps or area of improvements which we need to considered. So, quality engineer must have knowledge of some tools by use of which further improvements can be initiated and completed to make process or system more stringent and effective. Some of the quality improvements are as follows :- 

  • Kaizen

  • Quality improvement program

  • Quality circles

  • Poka yoke

  • Mura Muri Muda

  • Cost of poor quality

  • Six sigma