Practice Problems: Supplement 6 (S6), Statistical Process Control Problem 1: Twenty-five engine mounts are sampled each day and found to have an average width of 2 inches, with a standard deviation of 0.1 inches. What are the control limits that include 99.73% of the sample means ( Z 3) ? Problem 2: Several samples of size n 8 have been taken from today’s production of fence posts. The average post was 3 yards in length and the average sample range was 0.015 yard. Find the 99.73% upper and lower control limits. Problem 3: The average range of a process is 10 lbs. The sample size is 10. Use Table S6.1 to develop upper and lower control limits on the range. Problem 4: Based on samples of 20 IRS auditors, each handling 100 files, we find that the total number of mistakes in handling files is 220. Find the 95.45% upper and lower control limits. Problem 5: There have been complaints that the sports page of the Dubuque Register has lots of typos. The last 6 days have been examined carefully and the number of typos/page is recorded below. Is the process in control using Z 2? Day Number of Typos Monday 2 Tuesday 1 Wednesday 5 Thursday 3 Friday 4 Saturday 0 1 ANSWERS: Problem 1: 2 3 0.1 UCLX X Z X 2 3 0.1 LCLX X Z X 25 2 0.06 1.94 inches 25 2 0.06 2.06 inches Problem 2: X 3 yds R 0.015 yds A2 = 0.373 from Table S6.1 UCL X A2 R 3 0.373(0.015) 3.006 yds LCL X A2 R 3 0.373(0.015) 2.994 yds Problem 3: From Table S6.1, D4 = 1.78 and D3 = 0.22 UCLR D4 R (1.78)(10) 17.8 lbs LCLR D3 R (0.22)(10) 2.2 lbs Problem 4: P Total number of mistakes 220 0.11 Total number of files (100)(20) P (011 . )(1 011 . ) 0.03 100 UCLP P z P 0.11 (2)(0.03) 0.17 LCLP P Z P 0.11 (2)(0.03) 0.05 2 Problem 5: C 15 6 2.5 UCLC C 2 2.5 2.5 2(1.58) 5.66 LCLC C 2 2.5 2.5 2(1.58) 0.66 (or 0) As none of the observations are outside the control limits, the process is in statistical control. However, it might be a worthwhile effort to investigate why no typos were made on Saturday. We would like to better understand this effort so it can be repeated on other days. 3