You are a process manager at the Woodmill Company tasked with determining if an optical

scanner would be beneficial. report to your supervisorin which you:

1. Summarize the Woodmill Company's problem of ripping dimension lumber into narrower

pieces.

2. Develop a frequency distribution for the board values for the scanner and the manual process.

3. Generate appropriate descriptive statistics for both manual and scanner values.

4. Analyze the frequency distribution and descriptive statistics for both manual and scanner

processes. Use Excel to create charts.

5. Determine which process generates more values (manual or scanner).

6. Evaluate which process has less relative variability, using frequency distribution and descriptive

statistics.

7. Recommend whether the optical scanner is the best option for the company