Questions from Total Quality Management

Q: Frackly Oil is sold in 900 milliliter (mL) cans.

Frackly Oil is sold in 900 milliliter (mL) cans. The mean volume of oil placed in a can is 880 ml with a standard deviation of 7.8 mile Assuming a normal distribution of the data, what is the probabil...

Q: Sparkly Cleaning Co. has found that standard size offices have a

Sparkly Cleaning Co. has found that standard size offices have a standard deviation of 5 minutes for their cleaning time. The operations manager knows that 95 percent of the offices require more than...

Q: The mean time to pour and process 5 cubic yards of concrete

The mean time to pour and process 5 cubic yards of concrete by the Ohio Valley Construction is 15.5 minutes. If 2 percent of the projects with 5 yards of concrete require more than 15.75 minutes, what...

Q: Nearly everyone has eaten at McDonald’s; the company sells millions of

Nearly everyone has eaten at McDonald’s; the company sells millions of French fries each day. However, variation in the fries hasn’t gone unnoticed. One Japanese news source challenged McDonald’s Japa...

Q: The dimension of a machined part made by Perfection Machining, Inc

The dimension of a machined part made by Perfection Machining, Inc. has a nominal specification of 7.6 cm. The process that produces the part can be controlled to have a mean value equal to this speci...

Q: A hospital developed a design process consisting of the following steps:

A hospital developed a design process consisting of the following steps: Plan, Design, Measure, Assess, and Improve. Below is a list of specific activities that comprise these five steps in random ord...

Q: Guido Unlimited makes electronic soundboards for car stereos. Output voltage to

Guido Unlimited makes electronic soundboards for car stereos. Output voltage to a certain component on the board must be 12 6 0.5 volts. Exceeding the limits results in an estimated loss of $60. Deter...

Q: An electronic component at Amp comp has a specification of 100 6

An electronic component at Amp comp has a specification of 100 6 0.4 ohms. Scrapping the component results in a $81 loss. a. What is the value of k in the Taguchi loss function? b. If the process at...

Q: An automatic cookie machine at ACM, Inc. must deposit a

An automatic cookie machine at ACM, Inc. must deposit a specified amount of 25 6 0.3 grams (g) of dough for each cookie on a conveyor belt. It costs $0.03 to scrap a defective cookie. A sample of 50 c...

Q: A computer chip designed by the MicroKeeb Co. has a specification

A computer chip designed by the MicroKeeb Co. has a specification for the distance between two adjacent pins of 2.000 6 0.002 mm. The loss due to a defective chip is $4. A sample of 25 chips was drawn...