OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT W/ CNCT+
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Chapter 10, Problem 4CTE
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To determine: The situations where quality control charts are needed.
Introduction: Quality is a measure of excellence or a state of being free from deficiencies, defects and important variations. It is obtained by consistent and strict commitment to certain standards to attain uniformity of a product to satisfy consumers’ requirement.
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Altman Distributors, Inc., fills catalog orders. Samples of size n = 100 orders have been taken each day over the past6 weeks. The average defect rate was .05. Determine the upper and lower limits for this process for 99.73% confidence.
Which of the following is not considered to be one of the seven basic quality tools
1)control charts
2)check sheet
3)histogram
4)ABC analysis
5)cause - and - effect diagram
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b.
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