Certified Quality Technician (2025)

Master the Essential Tools and Techniques to Ensure Top-Notch Manufacturing Quality

Created by: Ray Harkins, The Manufacturing Academy
Senior Manufacturing Professional, Online Educator

What Will I Learn?

• Quality concepts including customers and suppliers, products and processes, standards, requirements, and specifications, and cost of quality (COQ)
• Quality tools including the seven basic quality tools, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing
• General concepts of statistical techniques and calculations.
• Creating and interpreting attribute and variable control charts.
• Principles of metrology and calibrations, selection of measurement and test equipment, and control and maintenance of M&TE
• Fundamentals of print reading, inspection concepts, inspection techniques and processes, sampling, and the control of nonconforming material
• Overviews of nondestructive testing techniques, destructive testing methods, and a sampling of other test methods.
• Audit types and terminology, audit components, tools and techniques, audit communication tools
• Fundamentals of risk management and mitigation

Requirements

• Basic understanding of manufacturing
• Basic understanding of Microsoft Excel

Target audience

• Quality technicians, Quality auditors, Inspectors
• Industrial engineers, Manufacturing engineers, Process technicians
• Those preparing to take ASQ's CQT exam
• Manufacturing managers, Production managers, Engineering managers
• Manufacturing professionals wishing to better understand quality principles and practices, systematic problem-solving methods, and basic data analysis and visualization techniques