Principles Of Operations Management
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Author: RENDER, Barry, HEIZER, Jay, Munson, Chuck
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An automatic filling machine is used to fill 2-litres bottles of cola. The machine's output is known to be approximately Normal with a mean of 1.0 litre and a standard deviation of 011
litres. Output is monitored using means of samples of nine observations.
a. Determine the upper and lower control limits that will include roughly 99.73 percent of the sample means. (Round the final answers to 3 decimal places.)
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Upper Control limits.
Lower Control limits
b. If the means for 6 samples are 1.009, .992, 995, 1.000, 1.007, and 995, is the process in control?
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we have seen various methods to set control limits for control charts. Which method would you prefer and why?
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