A Production Manager at a Pottery Factory Has Noticed That

question 42

Multiple Choice

A production manager at a pottery factory has noticed that about 70 percent of defects result from impurities in raw materials, 15 percent result from human error, 10 percent from machine malfunctions, and 5 percent from a variety of other causes. This manager is most likely using

• A) a Pareto chart
• B) a scatter diagram
• C) a Taguchi loss function
• D) a cause-and-effect diagram
• E) a flowchart

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