Quality Control Homework Problems

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2. The Road King Tire Company in Birmingham wants to monitor the quality of the
tires it manufactures. Each day the company quality-control manager takes a
sample of !! tires" tests them" an determines the num#er of defecti$e tires. The
results of 2! samples ha$e #een recorded in this file% &uality 'omework Control
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Construct a p-chart for this process using 2-sigma limit.
*. +ne of the stages in the process of making denim cloth at the ,outhern -ills
Company is to spin cotton yarn onto spindles for su#sequent use in the wea$ing
process. +ccasionally the yarn #reaks during the spinning process" and an
operator ties it #ack together. ,ome num#er of #reaks is considered normal.
howe$er" too many #reaks may mean that the yarn is of poor quality. /n order to
monitor this process" the quality-control manager randomly selects a spinning
machine each hour and checks the num#er of #reaks during a 0-minute period.
The second set of data in this file is a summary of the o#ser$ations for the past 2!
hours% &uality 'omework Control Chart Raw (ata.)ls
Construct a c-chart using 1-sigma limits for this process and indicate if the
process was out of control at any time.
2. The City ,quare 3rocery and -eat -arket has a large meat locker in which a
constant temperature of appro)imately 2! 4 should #e maintained. The market
manager has decided to construct an R-chart to monitor the temperature inside the
locker. The manager had one of the market employees take sample temperature
readings randomly fi$e times each day for 2! days in order to gather data for the
control data. The third set of data in the following file are the temperature sample
o#ser$ations% &uality 'omework Control Chart Raw (ata.)ls
a. Construct an )-#ar chart and R-chart #ased on these data using 1-sigma limits.
#. (oes it appear that the temperature is in control according to the criteria
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