Chemitech Company developed a new filtration system for municipal water supplies

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Chemitech Company developed a new filtration system for municipal water supplies. The components for the new filtration system will be purchased from several suppliers, and Chemitech will assemble the components at its plant in Columbia, South Carolina. The industrial engineering group is responsible for determining the best assembly method for the new filtration system. After considering a variety of possible approaches, the group narrows the alternatives to three: method A, method B, and method C. These methods differ in the sequence of steps used to assemble the system. Managers at Chemitech want to determine which assembly method can produce the greatest number of filtration systems per week.

Identify the factor/factors, treatments and response variable of the above experiment.

Explanation / Answer

Here the factor/ factors are the factor is an explanatory variable manipulated by the experimenter. Each factor has two or more levels, i.e., different values of the factor. Here the factors are method A, method B & method C. There are 3 factos here.

Combinations of factor levels are called treatments. So, number of steps associated with these three methods are the treatments here.

Here response variables are the number of filteration systems per week for each assemby per week.

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