A Company Has Established an Experiment with Its Production Process

question 145

True/False

A company has established an experiment with its production process in which three temperature settings are used and five elapsed times are used for each setting. The company then produces one product under each and measures the resulting strength of the product. The managers are mainly interested in determining whether the mean strength is the same at all temperature settings, but they know that controlling for process time is important. The following data were observed from the experiment: Based on these data and experimental design, for a significance level of 0.05, the managers should conclude that they were justified in blocking on the basis of processing time.

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Definitions:

Internal Control

Occurs through self‐discipline and self‐control.

Formal Administrative Systems

are structured and officially sanctioned processes, procedures, and rules designed to coordinate and control an organization's activities efficiently.

Concurrent Control

A management technique that involves monitoring and adjusting operations and processes as they happen in real-time.

Operant Conditioning

A training technique that changes how strong a behavior is by using incentives or consequences.