Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134506593
Author: James T. McClave, P. George Benson, Terry Sincich
Publisher: PEARSON
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Chapter 13.4, Problem 13.18ACI
Cereal box manufacturing. A machine at K-Company fills boxes with bran flakes cereal. The target weight for the filled boxes is 24 ounces. The company would like to use an x-chart to monitor the performance of the machine. To develop the control chart, the company decides to sample and weigh five boxes of cereal each day (at 8:00 and 11:00 A.M. and 2:00, 5:00, and 8:00 P.M. ) for 20 consecutive days. The data are summarized in the SPSS printout below.
- a. Construct an
- b. What does the chart suggest about the stability of the filling process (whether the process is in or out of statistical control)? Justify your answer.
- c. Should the control limits be used to monitor future process output? Explain.
- d. Two shifts of workers run the filling operation. Each day the second shift takes over at 3:00 P.M. Will the rational subgrouping strategy used by K- Company facilitate or hinder the identification of process variation caused by differences in the two shifts? Explain.
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Chapter 13 Solutions
Statistics for Business and Economics (13th Edition)
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