ACCEPTANCE SAMPLING TUTORIAL

1. A manufacturer of silicon chip produces chips in lots of

1000. A single sampling plan is used to test for bad
outgoing lots. If the quality of incoming lot is 0.01, calculate
the probability of accepting the lot in the following cases:
i) n = 12 and c = 1, and

ii) n = 60 and c = 2.

2. Suppose, in Question 1, the incoming quality of the lot is

0.05. What is the probability of accepting the lot on the first
sample? What is the probability of final acceptance?
3. A consumer receives lots of 500 candles from a new
supplier. To check the quality of the lot, the consumer draws
one sample of size 20 and accepts the lot if the inspected
sample contains at most one defective candle. Otherwise,
he/she rejects the lot. Construct the OC curve for this plan.
4. A Shirt manufacturing company supplies in lots of size
500 to the buyer. A double sampling plan with
n1=10,c1=0,n2=25,c2=1 is being used for the lot inspection.
The company and the buyer’s quality control inspector
decide that AQL=0.04 and LTPD=0.10.
5. A tyre supplier ships tires in lots of size 400 to the buyer.
The supplier and quality control inspector of the buyer decide
the acceptance quality level (AQL) to be 2%. Design a
sampling plan which ensures that the lots of quality 2% will
be rejected 5% of the time.
6. A mobile phone company produces mobile phones in lots of
400 phones each. To check the quality of the lots, the quality
inspector of the company uses a double sampling plan with n1 =
15, c1 = 1, n2 = 30, c2 = 3. Explain the procedure for
implementing it under acceptance sampling plan.
7. Suppose, in Question 5, the incoming quality of the lot
is 0.05. What is the probability of accepting the lot on the
first sample? What is the probability of final acceptance?
8. A tire supplier ships tires in lots of size 500 to the
buyer. The supplier and the quality control Inspector of the
buyer decide the acceptance quality level (AQL) to be 2%
and the lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD) to be 8%.
Design a double sampling plan which ensures that lots of
quality 2% will be rejected about 5% of the time and lots
of quality 8% will be accepted about 10% of the time. The
sample sizes are equal.
9. A ball bearing supplier and automobile company have
decided to check the quality of ball bearings in lots of size
1000 with acceptance quality level (AQL) as 1%. Design
the single sampling plan using c=2,4 and 6 which ensure
that lots of quality 1% will be rejected 1%of the time.
10. A consumer receives lots of 5000 candles from a new
supplier. To check the quality of lots, the consumer and
supplier want to use the single sampling plan which
satisfies a consumer’s risk for 5% for lots of quality 5%.
Determine sampling plans for the specified consumer’s
risk and LTPD for acceptance number c=3 and 6.