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Operations Management Module 7 Asynchronous Activity

The document contains 5 problems about calculating control limits for quality control processes based on sample data including average width, length, range, number of mistakes, and typos with given sample sizes, standard deviations, and confidence levels.

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Operations Management Module 7 Asynchronous Activity

The document contains 5 problems about calculating control limits for quality control processes based on sample data including average width, length, range, number of mistakes, and typos with given sample sizes, standard deviations, and confidence levels.

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Problem 1:

Twenty-five engine mounts are sampled each day and found to have an average width of 2 inches,
with a standard deviation of 0.1 inches. What are the control limits that include 99.73% of the
sample means ( Z  3) ?

Problem 2:
Several samples of size n  8 have been taken from today’s production of fence posts. The average
post was 3 yards in length and the average sample range was 0.015 yard. Find the 99.73% upper
and lower control limits.

Problem 3:
The average range of a process is 10 lbs. The sample size is 10. Use Table S6.1 to develop upper
and lower control limits on the range.

Problem 4:
Based on samples of 20 IRS auditors, each handling 100 files, we find that the total number of
mistakes in handling files is 220. Find the 95.45% upper and lower control limits.

Problem 5:
There have been complaints that the sports page of the Dubuque Register has lots of typos. The last
6 days have been examined carefully and the number of typos/page is recorded below. Is the
process in control using Z  2?

Day Number of Typos

Monday 2

Tuesday 1

Wednesday 5

Thursday 3

Friday 4

Saturday 0

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