Quantitative and Qualitative Forecasting

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tisirtg tr"'*herts Inthecaseolthep-charl,theiternwaseithergoodorbacl.Therearetimeswhentheproduct or scrvice can have more than one defect. For example, a boarcl sold at a lumberyard may have muttipte knotholes ,.,r:t, O.ft.,naing on the quality giade' 'nay ol Tay'::::l*"tttvc' When it is desired lo monitor the number of defects per unit' thc c-chart is appropnatc' The underlf ing distnbution lor the c-ctrart is the Poissot' which is based on the assumption that defects n."u. .undo*if on .o.1, unit. If r: is the number of tlefects for a particular unit' then Z is the average number o1 defects per unit, ancl the standard deviation is Vtl' For thc putposes ()1'ouf conlrol chart we use the nrlrmal approximation to i'he Poisstxi distribution zrnd .nn.rt*.t the chart using rhe iollowing control limits' jffitr' tt c : Average numbcr of defccts per unit .r:Vcp UCL' t':Vr' LCL : c * zlV or 0 if less than 0 Justaswithlhep-chart.typicallyz:3(99'lpercentconfidence)or::2'58 confidence) is used. 113.81 [13.e] [13.10] [13.11] (99 percent #kiiar*a5!^fl 4:*"*1 The owners of a lumberyarcl want to rJesign a control chart to monitor the quality ttf 2 x 1 boards that come from their supplier. For their medium-qualily boards they expect an average of four knotholes pcr S-tbot boal'd. Dcsign a control charl for use by the person rcceiving thc boards using three-sigma (standard deviation) lirnits' i:if,:r"{iYi!*;-t For this Problcm. c = 4, s,, : ..'a -- Z UCL:z+2rt:4+3(2): l0 LCL : a - zx/:c : 4' 3(2) : -?'0 (Zero is used since it is not possible to have a negative number of defects') Fn**ess*qintr**wit$:V;ar$a[:*e{b{*asLirers"}*fitsl L3*ixg "$" *nd tr-e hnrts 1- ur6 pilrange) charts are widely used in statistical process control' lnattribrrtcsampling,wedetcrnrinewhcthcrsornethingisgoodorbad'fitsordoesn,tfit- itisago/no-gosituation.lnsampling'however'wemeasuretheactualweight' volume, nurrber of inchcs, or other variablc measurements, and wc dcvclop control chatls to determine the acceptabiiity or rejection of the process based on.tl.rose measurements' For example, in attribute ,u*f rirg, *" Ligt, decide that if something is over l0 p.unds rve will reject it and under t o potinos"we will iccept it. In variables sampling, we measure a sample u,,a',uyrecordweightsofg.8poundsorl0.2pounds.Thesevaluesareusedtocreateor nrotiify control charts and to see whether tirey fall within the acceptable limits' There are four maiu issues ti-r address in creating a control chart: the size of the samples' number of sanrples, frequency of sarnples' and control limits' size of $arnples For inciustrial applicarions in process control involving the measurementofvariables,itispret-erablctokeepthesamplesizesmall.Therearetwomun reasors. First, the sample needs to be taken rvithin a reasonable length of time; otherwise' the processmightchangewhilethesatnplesaretaken.second,thelargerthesanple.themoreit costs to take. For a steptY'stcP walklfirsugn dihis example, lri$it ww.mhhscomljacobsl{e-sts-dtI& Quality characteristics that are measured in actual weight, volume, inches, centimeters, or other measure.