Questions from General Operations Management


Q: Yasuko’s Art Emporium (YAE) ships art from its studio located

Yasuko’s Art Emporium (YAE) ships art from its studio located in the Far East to its distribution center located on the West Coast of the United States. YAE can send the art either via transoceanic sh...

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Q: An LCD projector in an office has a main light bulb with

An LCD projector in an office has a main light bulb with a reliability of 0.90 and a backup bulb, the reliability of which is 0.80. The system looks as follows: What is the reliability of the system?...

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Q: A university Web server has five main components, each with the

A university Web server has five main components, each with the same reliability. All five components must work for the server to function as intended. If the university wants to have a 95 percent rel...

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Q: Bio Tech Research Center is working to develop a new vaccine for

Bio Tech Research Center is working to develop a new vaccine for the West Nile Virus. The project is so important that the firm has created three teams of experts to work on the project from different...

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Q: Breeze Toothpaste Company makes tubes of toothpaste. The product is produced

Breeze Toothpaste Company makes tubes of toothpaste. The product is produced and then pumped into tubes and capped. The production manager is concerned whether the filling process for the tubes of too...

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Q: A quality control manager at a manufacturing facility has taken four samples

A quality control manager at a manufacturing facility has taken four samples with four observations each of the diameter of a part. a) Compute the mean of each sample. b) Compute an estimate of the me...

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Q: A production manager at Ultra Clean Dishwashing Company is monitoring the quality

A production manager at Ultra Clean Dishwashing Company is monitoring the quality of the company’s production process. There has been concern relative to the quality of the operation in accurately fil...

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Q: The Awake Coffee Company produces gourmet instant coffee. The company wants

The Awake Coffee Company produces gourmet instant coffee. The company wants to be sure that the average fill of coffee containers is 12.0 ounces. To make sure the process is in control, a worker perio...

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Q: A tire manufacturer has been concerned about the number of defective tires

A tire manufacturer has been concerned about the number of defective tires found recently. In order to evaluate the true magnitude of the problem, a production manager selected 10 random samples of 20...

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Q: The Fresh Pie Company purchases apples from a local farm to be

The Fresh Pie Company purchases apples from a local farm to be used in preparing the filling for its apple pies. Sometimes the apples are fresh and ripe. Other times they can be spoiled or not ripe en...

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