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A. What Percentage of Parts Will Not Meet The Weight Specs?

This document contains several statistics problems involving control charts and process control. Problem 1 involves calculating what percentage of parts will not meet weight specifications for a DVD part and determining control limits for sample means. Problem 2 determines control limits for sample means of bottle filling volumes and evaluates if a process is in control. Problem 3 evaluates control charts for vehicle wiper blade replacement times and determines if the process is in control.

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A. What Percentage of Parts Will Not Meet The Weight Specs?

This document contains several statistics problems involving control charts and process control. Problem 1 involves calculating what percentage of parts will not meet weight specifications for a DVD part and determining control limits for sample means. Problem 2 determines control limits for sample means of bottle filling volumes and evaluates if a process is in control. Problem 3 evaluates control charts for vehicle wiper blade replacement times and determines if the process is in control.

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CHAPTER 10

PROBLEM 1

Specifications for a part for a DVD player state that the part should weigh between 24 and 25
ounces. The process that produces the parts has a mean of 24.5 ounces and a standard deviation of .2
ounce. The distribution of output is normal.

a. What percentage of parts will not meet the weight specs?

b. Within what values will 95.44 percent of sample means of this process fall, if samples of
n 16 are taken and the process is in control (random)?
PROBLEM 2

An automatic filling machine is used to fill 1-liter bottles of cola. The machine’s output is
approximately normal with a mean of 1.0 liter and a standard deviation of .01 liter. Output is monitored
using means of samples of 25 observations.

a. Determine upper and lower control limits that will include roughly 97 percent of the sample

means when the process is in control.


σ
UCL = x̄ + z x
√𝑛

σ
LCL = x̄ - z x
√𝑛

c. Given these sample means: 1.005, 1.001, .998, 1.002, .995, and .999, is the process in
control?
- All the means lie inside the range except 1.005 which is on the boarder line. As a
result, even the presence of one sample mean outside the control limits is sufficient
for the process to go out of control
- One of the sample means lies outside the range, and so the process will be out of
control, and the UCL and the LCL will be 1.0047 and 0.9753 respectively
PROBLEM 3

The time to replace vehicle wiper blades at a service center was monitored using a mean and a
range chart. Six samples of n 20 observations were obtained and the sample means and ranges computed:

a. Using the factors in Table 10.3 , determine upper and lower limits for mean and range
charts.
b. Is the process in control?
- Yes, the process is in control because the values of samples in the mean chart is under
the upper control limit. All the values of samples in range chart are also in the upper
control limit.

PROBLEM 4

Computer upgrade times (in minutes) are being evaluated. Samples of five observations each
have been taken, and the results are as listed. Using factors from Table 10.3 ,determine upper and lower
control limits for mean and range charts, and decide if the process is in control.
SOLUTION:

- Yes. The process is in control because all the values of samples in the mean chart are
under the upper control limit, and all the values of samples in the range chart are also
under the upper control limit.
PROBLEM 5

Using samples of 200 credit card statements, an auditor found the following:

a. Determine the fraction defective in each sample.

b. If the true fraction defective for this process is unknown, what is your estimate of it?
c. What is your estimate of the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution
of fractions defective for samples of this size?

d. What control limits would give an alpha risk of .03 for this process?
e. What alpha risk would control limits of .047 and .003 provide?

0.500-0.4772= 0.0228

0.0228 x 2= 0.045

f. Using control limits of .047 and .003, is the process in control?


g. Suppose that the long-term fraction defective of the process is known to be 2 percent.
What are the values of the mean and standard deviation of the sampling distribution?

Mean=0.02

Standard Deviation=0.0099

h. Construct a control chart for the process, assuming a fraction defective of 2 percent,
using two-sigma control limits. Is the process in control?

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