Types of Control (Scenario)

question 81

Multiple Choice

Types of Control (Scenario)
Sam has not been receiving the information that he needs from his current control system. By the time Sam receives his reports, the activity has been completed and mistakes have already been made. Direct supervision is used extensively on the production floor now, so some activities are corrected before they become costly mistakes. But Sam would like to do better. Ideally, he would like to fix mistakes before they happen and anticipate more of the problems before they occur.
-The type of control used on the production floor is __________ control.

• A) applied
• B) feedforward
• C) conformance
• D) concurrent
• E) feedback

Explain the advantages and limitations of exponential smoothing.

Calculate and interpret moving averages for specified periods given historical data.

Understand and identify the association between two quantitative variables.

Distinguish between exploratory analysis, benchmarking, and data mining.

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Definitions:

LCL

Lower Control Limit, a statistical measure in quality control processes that defines the lower threshold acceptable for variation.

UCL

Upper Control Limit, a line on a control chart that represents the maximum acceptable limit of variation in a process.

T-distribution

A statistical probability distribution utilized for estimating parameters of a population when dealing with a small sample size and an unknown population variance.

Degrees Of Freedom

The number of independent pieces of information available to estimate another parameter or the dimensionality of a statistical calculation.