Salvio Enterprises Has Identified the Following as Having an Impact

question 14

Essay

Salvio Enterprises has identified the following as having an impact on the company's quality costs:
1.Inspection of manufactured goods on assembly line
2.Warranty repairs
3.Employee training
4.Quality engineering/design
5.Units repaired at customers' site
6.Product testing
7.Customer complaints
8.Product liability
9.Rework of defective goods before transfer to finished goods
10.Preventive maintenance for equipment
11.Evaluation of suppliers
Required:
A.

A.Classify the eleven costs as prevention,appraisal,internal failure,or external failure.
B.Briefly contrast the objective of traditional quality control and contemporary quality control.
B.The traditional view holds that the optimal level of product quality is a balancing act between failure costs and the costs of prevention and appraisal.The goal is to minimize total quality costs by operating at the point where failure costs equal the sum of prevention and appraisal costs.In contrast,the contemporary perspective holds that any deviations from a product's target specifications result in higher costs,with the optimal situation arising at the zero defect level.

Comprehend the analysis of two-way tables and its applications.

Apply statistical tests to evaluate public opinion polls.

Understand the usage and interpretation of expected cell counts in hypothesis testing.

Grasp the basics of chi-square distribution and its properties.

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Definitions:

Linear Association

A relationship between two variables that can be represented on a graph as a straight line, indicating a consistent rate of change.

Moderately Strong Association

A statistical term indicating a reasonably strong relationship between two variables, showing noticeable correlation but not absolute prediction.

Little or No Association

A term used in statistics to describe a situation where there is very weak or no relationship between two variables being studied.

Very Strong Association

A term in statistics indicating a high level of correlation between two variables.