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The correlation between two variables can be determined by a scatter plot. True _____ False________ Please answer the following multiple choice questions (each worth 4

  1. The correlation between two variables can be determined by a scatter plot.

True _____ False________

  1. Please answer the following multiple choice questions (each worth 4 points)):
  1. Which of the following is true of common cause variation?

A) It is uncontrollable.

B) It is centered around the mean.

C) It is inherent in the process.

D) All of the above.

E) None of the above

  1. An X bar chart is used to monitor _________.

  1. Process Dispersion
  2. Variation of the baseline
  3. Trend in standard deviation
  4. Variation of the Mean

  1. Which of the following tools are used to organize ideas?

A) Pareto Chart

B) Histogram

C) Affinity Diagram

D) Check sheets

E) Process map

  1. Which of the following tools is used to analyze cycle time

  1. Control Chart

B) Fishbone diagram

C) Pareto Chart

D) Process map

E) Root Cause Analysis

  1. A true 3 Sigma Process should not have more than _______defects per million opportunities
  2. 6,210
  3. 3.4
  4. 2700
  5. 45500

  1. Please respond to the following questions. Each question is worth 10 points:

  1. 97.

  1. Please make a process map for withdrawing cash from an ATM machine as described below:

Janet needed some cash and walks up to an ATM machine. She inserts her debit card. The machine returns the card and the monitor reads: "could not read the card try again". Janet recognizes that she has entered the card in the wrong direction. She takes the card and turns it around and insert the card again. The machine keeps the card and the monitor reads: "enter pass code". Janet enters a 4 digit code. The monitor reads: " error, try again".

Janet enters the code again. The monitor displays: Withdrawal? Yes No

Janet selects Yes. Displays shows:

" $100, $200, $300, $400, $______".

Janet selects $200. The machine pushes out 10 $20 bills. Monitor then displays "Receipt? Yes No". Janet selects No. Monitor displays "Take your cash" .

The machine returns the card. Display changes to "Thank You".

Janet takes the cash and her card and walks away.

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  1. A procurement manager has been tracking the delivery performance of her suppliers. Based on the following data

  1. Calculate sigma performance of these suppliers using Z Score tables and rank order them.
  2. Comment on the performance of these suppliers

Supplier A B C
Number of deliveries 25 54 70
Number of late deliveries 3 10 12

  1. A project manager at Global Design Corporation has collected the following data on the size of software programs and the length of programming time. The company is bidding on a new system that is estimated to consist of 400,000 lines of code. Use the data to find the correlation function of coding time to the program size and estimate the number of days it would take to code the system.

Module Size in 1000 lines of code (KLOC) Number of days to code
1 150 72
2 158 66
3 148 65
4 120 60
5 178 75
6 170 68
7 152 68
8 138 65
9 200 80
10 195 75
11 189 65
12 173 68
13 159 62
14 163 71
15 150 65
16 140 65
17 206 74
18 144 64
19 157 70
20 183 76
21 195 75
22 190 77
23 185 73
24 152 58
25 178 70

  1. A quality control engineer monitors the quality of a cylinder production line. He regularly selects samples of units and measures the diameters. The specification requires the diameter to be 6 inches plus/minus 0.1 inch. If the true mean and standard deviation of the process are 6.05 and 0.04,
    1. Is the process capable of meeting its specifications? Calculate its CP and CPk.

  1. What % of the cylinders if any are out of specs?

  1. A product manager has conducted a customer satisfaction survey of

30 customers on a scale of 1 to 5. The survey data is shown below. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the survey and plot a histogram of the data. Does the distribution approximate Normal?

Customer Satisfaction rating
1 4
2 3
3 2
4 5
5 5
6 2
7 1
8 4
9 3
10 4
11 4
12 5
13 3
14 3
15 2
16 1
17 5
18 3
19 4
20 3
21 4
22 2
23 4
24 4
25 3
26 3
27 3
28 2
29 2
30 3
  1. A Black Belt consultant in the ABC Corporation reported the Sigma Performance of a manufacturing line as 3.5. Using Z score table, calculate the % defective units coming off the production line.

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