HBS Simulation: Quality Analytics

• Challenge 2
  • How did you determine when to make a machine adjustment (re-center the process mean) or make a labor substitution (re-center the process standard deviation) or change both?
  • Were you more reactive or proactive? Did this change as you did more runs?
  • In general, what are the implications of making the process adjustments too frequently?
  • What are your take-aways from Challenge 2, which includes the values found in Challenge 1?
• Challenge 3
  • "Control Limits are calculated, while Specification Limits are set." What does this mean?
  • How does knowing if a company's Control Limits are within or fall outside of the Specification Limits impact their decision to accept or reject an order?
• Challenge 4
  • What was your strategy in selecting the various options and how did it evolve across runs?
  • What interactions and trade-offs among the various costs did you notice?