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MGT4650 - Milburn Engineering Exercise Key

SPC exercise

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PROCESS CAPABILITY EXERCISE HAND IN ONE CLEAN COPY

Please provide names and signatures only for team members who are present today:
NAME (Print) SIGNATURE
1.
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5.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Engineers at Milburn Textiles have developed the following design specifications for a key dying
process where rolls of fabric go through dyeing process
• Target value for process mean = 140 degrees
• Upper spec limit (USL) = 148 degrees
• Lower spec limit (LSL) = 132 degrees
• Std deviation, σ is 2.14 degrees
The team measures the temp 5 times a day during a 10 day period.
Temperature must be “monitored” and action taken when something is “unusual”

Sampl obs obs2 obs3 obs4 obs5 Ave Range


e 1
1 136 137 144 141 138 139.2 8

2 143 138 140 140 139 140 5


3 140 141 144 137 135 139.4 9
4 139 140 141 139 141 140 2
5 137 138 143 140 138 139.2 6
6 142 141 140 139 138 140 4

7 143 141 143 140 140 141.4 3

8 139 139 141 140 136 139 5


9 140 138 143 141 139 140.2 5
10 139 141 142 140 136 139.6 6
139.8 5.3
1.
2. Steps
a. Calculate the Averages & Ranges
b. Calculate the Average of the Averages & Ranges, these are your Center Lines
c. Draw the Center Lines on the Control Charts
Calculate the Limits using the Table and the Formulas (note that there are 5 observations,
so from the table we use n=5, so A2=.58; D4=2.11; D3=0
X bar chart UCL=142.87; LCL=136.73
R chart UCL= 11.18; LCL=0
d. Draw the Limits on the Control Charts
e. Plot the averages and ranges on the Control Charts
The process is “in control”
1. If the process is in control, we continue taking samples…so just redraw the CL, UCL & LCL
which we calculated above for problem 1 and then continue plotting the averages and ranges
from the table below. This process goes out of control as displayed on the x Bar chart at
Sample 13.
Sampl X R
e
11 141.2 8
12 142 9
13 144 12
14 140 5
15 139.6 4
16 140.8 5
1. Our process is capable of producing quality products consistently as Cp is greater than 1.
2. Min Cpk = 1.21, so even though the process has shifted off center, it is still capable of
producing quality products consistently.

3. Milburn Textiles has recalibrated its dyeing process so that the process mean is now
exactly centered at 140 degrees, with a new lower standard deviation, σ of 1.40 degrees.
Given UTL & LTL as before, does the dyeing process provide Six Sigma quality levels?
In order to provide Six Sigma quality levels, Cp must equal 2, so we are not Six Sigma
capable.

We can also use this formula to see if we are Six Sigma capable. In this formula, we are
Six Sigma capable if Cp > or = to 1.

4. In order to see what extent the process for producing the fabric would have to be
improved in order to achieve Six Sigma quality, we solve for σ.

So in order to be Six Sigma capable, a new even lower standard deviation σ would have
to be 1.333 degrees.

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