A Consultant Has Been Brought in to a Manufacturing Plant

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Essay

A consultant has been brought in to a manufacturing plant to help apply Six Sigma principles.Her first task is to work on the production of rubber balls.The upper and lower spec limits are 21 and 19 cm,respectively.The consultant takes ten samples of size five and computes the sample standard deviation to be .7 cm and the sample mean to be 19.89 cm.Compute Cp and Cpk for the process.Give the consultant advice on what to do with the process based on your findings.

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Definitions:

Reactivity

The tendency of a substance to undergo chemical reaction, either by itself or with other materials, and to release energy.

Compounds

Compounds are chemical substances made up of two or more different chemical elements, bonded together in a fixed proportion by chemical bonds.

Transition State

A high-energy, intermediate state of the reactants during a chemical reaction that leads to the formation of products.

Solvolysis

The chemical process of breaking bonds in a compound by reaction with a solvent.