Quality Management
From your local grocery store or a convenience store, purchase two bags of 12.6oz (non-peanut) of M&Mâ??s candies and mix them together to create one large sample. Use the worksheet in" rel="nofollow">in Min" rel="nofollow">initab to report the followin" rel="nofollow">ing:1. Colors: What colors did you fin" rel="nofollow">ind in" rel="nofollow">in your sample and how many candy units per color? (2 poin" rel="nofollow">ints)
2. Defects: How many defects did you fin" rel="nofollow">ind? (2poin" rel="nofollow">ints)
3. Display a bar chart of the number of each color found in" rel="nofollow">in your sample (2poin" rel="nofollow">ints)
4. Display a Pareto chart of the number of defects found in" rel="nofollow">in your sample (2poin" rel="nofollow">ints)
In a word document, perform the followin" rel="nofollow">ing tasks and answer the followin" rel="nofollow">ing questions:
1. Copy and Paste your bar chart of color in" rel="nofollow">into the Word document and in" rel="nofollow">interpret the result. For example, what color did you fin" rel="nofollow">ind most frequently in" rel="nofollow">in your sample? (2poin" rel="nofollow">ints)
2. Copy and paste your Pareto chart of defects here and in" rel="nofollow">interpret the results. For example, what defect did you fin" rel="nofollow">ind most frequently? (2poin" rel="nofollow">ints)
3. What type of data is the color of a sample of candy? Why? (1poin" rel="nofollow">int)
4. What type of data is the number of defects found in" rel="nofollow">in a sample of candy? Why? (1poin" rel="nofollow">int)
5. What type of data is the weight of each M&M candy bag? Why? (1poin" rel="nofollow">int)
6. What do you thin" rel="nofollow">ink the cause of the most frequent defect might be? (1poin" rel="nofollow">int)
7. What quality tool would you recommend for analyzin" rel="nofollow">ing and fin" rel="nofollow">indin" rel="nofollow">ing the cause of the most frequent defect? Why? (2poin" rel="nofollow">ints)
8. What is the role of a checksheet in" rel="nofollow">in data collection? (2poin" rel="nofollow">ints)