A manufacturing company produces steel rods. The length of these rods is critical to their customers. The company aims to manufacture rods with a mean length of 150 cm. However, due to variability in the manufacturing process, the lengths of the rods follow a normal distribution. The company's quality control department samples 30 rods and finds that they have a mean length of 151 cm and a standard deviation of 2 cm. Calculate the Process Capability Index (Cp) and the Process Performance Index (Ppk) for this process. Assume the customer's specification limits are 147 cm and 153 cm for the length of the rods.

2) The specification for a Lindemann’s stainless steel chimney liner requires a thickness of 7.1 mm ± 0.1 mm. The firm’s quality analyst determines that the liner process operates at a mean thickness of 7.13 mm with the standard deviation of the process being 0.02 mm.   a) Calculate the upper and the lower limits for the stainless steel chimney liner. b) Calculate the Cpand Cpkfor this process.   Hint: Cp = (Upper Specification Limit – Lower Specification Limit)/6sigma Cpk = minimum of [(Upper Specification Limit – Xbar)/3sigma], [(Xbar – Lower Specification Limit)/3sigma]

Twelve​ samples, each containing five​ parts, were taken from a process that produces steel rods at Emmanual​ Kodzi's factory. The length of each rod in the samples was determined. The results were tabulated and sample means and ranges were computed. The results​ were:                                                                                                                              Sample Sample Mean​ (in.) Range​ (in.) Sample Sample Mean​ (in.) Range​ (in.) 1 9.602 0.033 7 9.603 0.041 2 9.602 0.041 8 9.605 0.034 3 9.593 0.034 9 9.597 0.027 4 9.606 0.051 10 9.601 0.029 5 9.599 0.031 11 9.603 0.039 6 9.599 0.036 12 9.606 0.047 Part 2 For the given​ data, the x double overbarx ​= 9.6013 inches ​(round your response to four decimal​ places). Part 3 Based on the sampling​ done, the control limits for ​3-sigma x overbarx chart​ are:   Upper Control Limit ​(UCL Subscript x…

A microbrewery tracks its output in gallons over a five hour period for each of seven days. Their data is in the table below, and they went ahead and calculated the averages and ranges for the individual samples and the overall averages Their data and the factors tables can be found below. Calculate the upper (LCL) and lower (UCL) control limits for X bar, and R charts for their process. Day (X values) X̅   R 1 46 49 45 47 48 47.0   4 2 43 52 46 52 44 47.4   9 3 45 55 46 51 43 48.0   12 4 39 44 42 43 40 41.6   5 5 45 50 48 50 42 47.0   8 6 44 48 45 45 40 44.4   8 7 41 44 52 50 47 46.8   11           X̿ = 46.03 R̅ 8.14     Xbar chart - LCL = 40.48, UCL=46.25, R chart LCL=0, UCL=14.01 Xbar chart - LCL = 44.21, UCL=48.41, R chart LCL=0.49, UCL=17.18 Xbar chart - LCL = 42.61, UCL=49.45, R chart LCL=0.65, UCL=15.63 Xbar chart - LCL = 44.21, UCL=51.62, R chart LCL=0, UCL=17.18 Xbar chart - LCL = 41.31, UCL=50.75, R chart LCL=0, UCL=17.18