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You are the Quality Leader for a manufacturing company that produces a composite product. A new...


You are the Quality Leader for a manufacturing company that produces a composite product. A new product has been designed and your company will be manufacturing these items. After the initial pilot run your inspector reports the process output as follows;
µ = 1132 grams
s = 37 grams
Customer specifications are;
LSL = 1100 g
USL = 1200 g
1. Draw a model for this process (normal curve) with the mean, upper 3s, lower 3s as well as the customer specification limits.
2. Calculate the losses in percent for the current process?
3. Redraw the model as it would appear when the process is centered.
4. Calculate the losses under this centered process.
5. Determine the value of the new standard deviation that would be needed in order to have a process where the customer specification limits are at ± 3 standard deviations (e.g. z = ± 3.0)

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