‘Student Class Instructor SECTION 14-3 Quality Control ‘You can control the quality of items being mass produced by using a quali are defective, the situation is “out of control,” Percent Defective = Number Defective Total Number Checked control chart. If too many items 1. Rita DeVane, a quality control inspector for The Sock Company, checked a sample of 875 socks. She found 94 defective samples. If more than 7 percent of the samples is defective, the process is out of control. What percent of the sample is defective? Is the process in or out of control? 2. Lamar Watson checks 400 samples per hour of calculators produced by The Math Company. ‘The production process is in control if 1 percent or less of the samples is defective. At 6:00 4.94. Watson found 3 of the 400 samples defective. At 7:00 a.m he found 6, At 8:00 A.M. he found 1. What percent of each inspection was defective? Was the process in or out of control each hour? 6AM. 7AM. Bam. 3. Quality control inspectors at Glass Works recorded the following data during one 8-hout shift. Compute the percent defective. Record the information on the quality control chart on the following page. ITEM GLASS GOBLETS #131 TIME: Bam. 9AM. M. 12 1pm, 2pm, 3PM. Number Checked 25 40 20 25 25 25 40 25 Number Defective 1 1 2 1 1 1 3 1 Percent Defective 4. You work asa quality control inspector at Glass Works. You recorded the data for the midnight to 7 4.s. shift. Compute the percent defective. Record the information on the quality control chart on the following page. TEM GLASS GOBLETS #131 TIME: 12 1AM. 2AM. 3AM. 40M, SAM. 6AM. 7AM, Number Checked 40 25 40 20 25 40 40 20 Number Defective 2 1 1 1 2 2 1 2 Percent Defective