There are 14 different defects that can occur on a completed time card. The payroll department collects 328 cards and finds a total of 87 defects. DPU =

A. 87 ÷ 328

B. 87 ÷ (328 × 14)

C. 14 ÷ 87

D. 87 ÷ 14

E. 328 ÷ 87

F. 87 × 1,000,000 ÷ (14 × 328)

= 0.05 A machine tool vender wants to sell an injection molding machine. The current machine produces 3.2% defectives. A sample of 1100 from the vender 's machine has 2.9% defective. Do these numbers indicate that the proposed machine has a lower rate of defectives?

A. yes

B. no

A set of data from a process has 8 readings per sample and 50 samples. The mean of the 50 sample means is 12.62. The mean of the 50 ranges is 0.18.Find control limits for the R chart.

A. 0.10 and 0.25

B. none and 0.33

C. 0.02 and 0.33

D. none of the above

In the theory of constraints the "subordinate" step refers to:

A. a listing of sub-processes

B. reducing the rate for some processes

C. the portion of the process flow chart that depends on the main flow

D. the less important product or service stream

E. none of the above

In a good Measurement System the most variation will be with part-to-part measurements. What should you do if the majority of variation is associated with the Gage RandR assuming the gage is technically capable?

A. Focus on fixing the Repeatability and Reproducibility of the measurement device

B. Purchase a new machine

C. Focus on trimming the Part-to-Part variation

D. Run another MSA test with the machine

Which of these is not a primary cause for Non-normal Data?

A. Skewness

B. Mixed Distributions

C. Kurtosis

D. Formulosis

E. Granularity

An operator is measuring the distance between two points. Which is most likely to be influenced by the operator?

A. Precision of the measurement

B. Accuracy of the measurement

C. Calibration of the instrument

D. All of these answers are correct

Each of the items listed would impact the Process Capability for a process with a continuous output except ___________________.

A. Shape of process data distribution (e.g. Normal Distribution)

B. Process Technology

C. Process Standard Deviation

D. Seasonal variation in process

In regression analysis, which of the following techniques can be used to reduce the higher- order terms in the model?

A. Large samples

B. Dummy variables

C. Transformations

D. Blocking

Process data being used in the initial setup of a process are assumed to have a normal distribution. If the nominal (target) is set at the center of the distribution, and the specification limits are set at ?3 from the center, the Cpkis equal to

A. 0.25

B. 1.00

C. 1.33

D. 1.67