Short questions about concept of process selection, planning, production operations.

A company that makes car accessories. The company control its production process by periodically taking a sample of 99 units from the production line. Each product is inspected for defective features. Control limits are developed using three standard deviations from the mean as the limit. During the last 12 samples taken, the proportion of defective items per sample was recorded as follows:

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a. Determine the mean proportion defective, the UCL, and the LCL?

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b. Draw a control chart and plot each of the sample measurements on it?

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c. Does it appear that the process for making tees is in statistical control?

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Question 2:

A Chemical Company estimates the annual demand for a certain product as

follows:

Week 1 2 3 4 5 6

Demand 649 524561 738511600

a. Forecast the demand for week 7 using a five-period moving average?

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b. Forecast the demand for week 7 using a three-period weighted moving

average. Use the following weights: W1 = .5, W2 = .3, W3 = .2.?

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c. Forecast the demand for week 7 using exponential smoothing. Use an α

value of .1 and assume the forecast for week 6 was 602 units

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d. What assumptions are made in each of the above forecasts?

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