At Your First Job Out of College You Have Been

question 170

Essay

At your first job out of college you have been assigned to the production of bottled 20 oz. soda. The process has upper and lower spec limits of 20.5 and 19.5 oz, respectively, with a mean of 19.8 oz and standard deviation of .1 oz. Your manager has requested the process produce no more than 3.4 defects per 1 million bottles produced. Calculate C_pk and then determine if the process is capable according to the manager's standard.

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Definitions:

Standard Deviation

Standard deviation is a statistical measure that quantifies the variability or dispersion of a set of data points or distribution from its mean.

Average Deviation

A statistical measure that describes the average distance of each data point from the mean of the data set.

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