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97. A product is made up of two subsystems in series. The first subsystem consis

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97.

A product is made up of two subsystems in series. The first subsystem consists of 20 components in series. The second subsystem consists of 3 components in parallel. The components in subsystem 1 are all of the same design and each has a 1/10,000 chance of failure. The parallel components each has a 3/10,000 chance for failure. What is the overall reliability of the system?

                       

A machine shop owner wishes to monitor the diameter of an engine boring operation where the piston bore should be 4.25”. He obtains 8 samples of 5 and records the following data. Calculate the lower and upper control limits for an X-bar chart and R chart. Is the process in control?

                              Sample #

1              2         3         4          5         6         7         8

5.1            4.7      4.3      4.6       4.6      4.8      4.9      4.3

4.4            4.5      4.6      4.4       4.3      4.3      5.1      4.8

4.7            4.9      4.4      5          4.7      4.8      4.5      5

4.9            5.1      4.6      4.9       5         5         4.6      4.7

4.9            5.2      4.9      4.7       4.7      4.3      4.7      5.2

The RC and More Superstore decides to track customer complaints as part of their ongoing customer satisfaction improvement program. After collecting data for two months, their check sheet appears as follows:

Type of Problem

Frequency

(number of times)

Batteries not included

6

Items damaged when received

21

Literature not included in box

9

Parts missing

13

Unit not working

1

Construct a Pareto chart including the cumulative % frequency. What is the cumulative percentage of the two leftmost bars?

4)

A product manager has conducted a customer satisfaction survey of

30 customers on a scale of 1 to 5. The survey data is shown below. Calculate the mean and standard deviation of the survey and plot a histogram of the data. Does the distribution approximate Normal?

Customer

Satisfaction rating

1

4

2

3

3

2

4

5

5

5

6

2

7

1

8

4

9

3

10

4

11

4

12

5

13

3

14

3

15

2

16

1

17

5

18

3

19

4

20

3

21

4

22

2

23

4

24

4

25

3

26

3

27

3

28

2

29

2

30

3

5)

A project manager at System Design Corporation has collected the following data on the size of software programs and the length of programming time. The company is bidding on a new system that is estimated to consist of 250000 lines of code. Please use the data to find the correlation function of coding time to the program size and estimate the number of days it would take to code the system.

Module

Size in 1000 lines of code (KLOC)

Number of days to code

1

160

68

2

158

66

3

148

70

4

135

59

5

178

72

6

170

68

7

158

64

8

138

65

9

200

70

10

195

68

11

189

65

12

173

68

13

159

70

14

163

71

15

150

66

16

140

65

17

206

73

18

144

64

19

157

70

20

183

74

21

195

75

22

190

77

23

182

69

24

152

65

25

174

69

97.

A product is made up of two subsystems in series. The first subsystem consists of 20 components in series. The second subsystem consists of 3 components in parallel. The components in subsystem 1 are all of the same design and each has a 1/10,000 chance of failure. The parallel components each has a 3/10,000 chance for failure. What is the overall reliability of the system?

                       

A machine shop owner wishes to monitor the diameter of an engine boring operation where the piston bore should be 4.25”. He obtains 8 samples of 5 and records the following data. Calculate the lower and upper control limits for an X-bar chart and R chart. Is the process in control?

                              Sample #

1              2         3         4          5         6         7         8

5.1            4.7      4.3      4.6       4.6      4.8      4.9      4.3

4.4            4.5      4.6      4.4       4.3      4.3      5.1      4.8

4.7            4.9      4.4      5          4.7      4.8      4.5      5

4.9            5.1      4.6      4.9       5         5         4.6      4.7

4.9            5.2      4.9      4.7       4.7      4.3      4.7      5.2

Explanation / Answer

1. Overall reliability of the system

Reliability series system is calculated using following formula;

RS = R1 x R2 x R3 x R4 ...... x Rn

Reliability of paraller system is calculated as;

RP = 1 - (1-R1) (1-R2) (1-R3) .......(1-RN)

where, R1,R2, .... Rn - Reliability of components in series.

Now in the given system, first we will calculate the reliability of the subsystems separrately;

Reliability of subsystem 1,

RS = R1 x R2 x R3 x R4 ... x R20

Where, reliability of components in series is,

R1 = R2 = R3 = ... = RN = (1 - chance of failure) = (1 - 1/10000) = 0.99990

RS = (0.99990)20

RS = 0.998002

Now, reliability of subsystem 2 with paraller system,

RP = 1 - (1 - R1)(1 - R2)(1 - R3)

where R1 = R2 = R3 = (1 - chance of failure) = (1 - 3/10000) = 0.9997

RP = 1 - (1 - 0.9997)3

RP = 1 (approximately)

Now, the overall relaibaility of system with these two subsystems in parallel;

RO = RS x RP

RO = 0.998002 x 1

Overall reliability RO = 0.998002