Sunday, February 14, 2010

MGT613 GDB

Following are some of the quality problems that operations managers often have to face regardless a manufacturing or a service organization. You are required to identify which quality improving tool would be helpful in determining their problems exactly and provide a clear picture of the scenario:

First one is done for you.
Problems
Tools
1
A manager wants to display a wall chart in the meeting room to help identifying the processes and facilities flow.
Flow chart
2
A manager needs to check the rate of occurrence (central tendency and dispersion of data) of a particular quality problem found in the assembly line over a period of time.
3
Reason of a variation in the diameter of yarn might be due to the mechanical fault and raw material. Manager wants to know the relationship between these variables to see which one has a strong correlation with the problem.
4
Operations manager of an Airline wants to identify all the possible causes of delays in flight.
5
The causes of flight delays are identified and the operations manager wants to decide which problem should be addressed first.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Answers
1- Flow chart
2- HISTOGRAMS
3- Statistical process control (SPC)
4- SCATTER DIAGRAM
5- CAUSE & EFFECT DIAGRAM
Rashid Mehmood
mc080203478@vu.edu.pk

Unknown said...

1- Flow chart
2- HISTOGRAMS
3- Statistical process control (SPC)
4- SCATTER DIAGRAM
5- CAUSE & EFFECT DIAGRAM