A wallpaper manufacturer wants to assess the stability of it…
A wallpaper manufacturer wants to assess the stability of its printing process. Samples of 100 feet were taken from 25 wallpaper rolls and the number of blemishes, which include print smears, patter distortions, and missing ink, were counted. What control chart would you use?
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The manager of a medical center pharmacy is concerned about the amount of time pharmacist spend calling doctors to confirm prescription information. The number one reason for such calls is illegible handwriting. The pharmacist kept a prescription log for two weeks and recorded for each prescription whether there was illegible handwriting related to the drug, the dosage, the number of refills, or doctor name (four pieces of information per prescription). 305 defects were found from 2,000 prescriptions. What is the DMPO?
Read DetailsWorthington Cylinders manufactures propane tanks for the gas…
Worthington Cylinders manufactures propane tanks for the gas grill industry. Walking through the plant, we made the following observations. They have 10 days of raw material, Mittal Steel delivers twice a month. The first operation, stamping, has one person and only takes 10 seconds to make a part. However, each time they run it, it takes one hour to set up. Prior to welding the part’s together, 4,000 parts of inventory are waiting to be welded. Welding only takes 30 seconds for one guy to complete. After the welding operation 1,000 parts are waiting to be painted. Painting requires a complete paint booth to keep all the fumes from filling the entire plant. A cylinder comes out of the paint booth every 20 seconds. Four guys currently work in painting. After painting, 600 cylinders are waiting to be boxed for shipment. The Boxing Department consists of one person who box six cylinders together every 60 seconds. The finish products end up on the shipping dock where we counted 1,000 cylinders. For the painting step, the processing time is?
Read DetailsThe Gotham city tobacco coalition sent four teenagers under…
The Gotham city tobacco coalition sent four teenagers under the age of 18 into various convenience stores to see if they could purchase cigarettes. Of the 320 stores checked, 58 sold cigarettes to the teens. The goal of the study was to see if less than 20% of the stores sold cigarettes to minors. Draw a conclusion, given a level of significance of 0.05 based on the results below: Ho: p = 0.2 Ha: p < 0.2 p value = 0.181
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