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'":de..ce..-) A - Br.e V: The Unnersity of The West Indies Examinations of December 2010

The document is an exam for a quality control and reliability course. It contains 5 questions about topics like inspection vs quality control, control charts, producer's and consumer's risk, acceptance quality limits, component reliability, and control chart patterns. Students are instructed to answer any 3 of the 5 questions.

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'":de..ce..-) A - Br.e V: The Unnersity of The West Indies Examinations of December 2010

The document is an exam for a quality control and reliability course. It contains 5 questions about topics like inspection vs quality control, control charts, producer's and consumer's risk, acceptance quality limits, component reliability, and control chart patterns. Students are instructed to answer any 3 of the 5 questions.

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THE UNNERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES

EXAMINATIONS OF DECEMBER 2010

Code and Name ofCourse ; IENG 3005 QUALITY CONTROL AND RELIABILITY Paper: Date and Time:

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INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES: This paper has 3 pages and 5 questions.

ANSWER ANY THREE (3) QUESTIONS

USE OF SQC TABLES AND NON-PROGRAMABLE CALCULATORAREPERNUTTED


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1. ​(a) ​Differentiate between "Inspection" and "Quality Control" ​[4 ​marks]


(b) In a textile finishing plant, dyed cloth is inspected for the occurrence ofdefects per 50
Square Meters. The data on 10 rolls are shown in the following Table.
Roll # 1 2 3 ​4 ​5 ​6 ​7 ​8 ​9 ​10 ​# ​of Square Meters 500 400 650 500 475 500 600 525 600 625 Total # of 14 12 20 ​11
7 ​10 21 16 19 23 Non-Conformities
Recommend appropriate control chart with Process Average, Upper and Lower Control limits for future use to
monitor and control the process quality. ​[16 marks]
2. ​(a) Explain why a pair of charts is required to monitor and control the quality ofprocesses using control
charts for variables. ​[5 ​marks]

- ​(b)
​ 3​ 57.50 and ​LR ​= 9​ .90. These data are the summation of20 days
Given that for a process ​LX =
with a sample size of 10 tested each day. The specification limits are 18.00 ​± 0​ .05.

- ​(i) Compute control limits for the x and R control charts ​[2 ​marks] (ii)
​ If all prints on both control charts fall
within control limits, what are the Natural Tolerance
Limits ofthe process. ​[2 ​marks] ​(iii) What are your conclusions regarding the ability of the process to produce
items within the
specification limits? ​[4 ​marks] ​(iv) Assuming that if an item exceeds the USL it can be reworked, and if it falls
below the LSL it
must be scrapped, what percentage of scrap and rework is the process producing?
[5 ​marks] ​(v) Make suggestions as to how the process performance could be improved.
[2 marks]
3. ​Define (a) ​(i) ​Producer's risk
(ii) Consumer's risk (iii) AQL (iv) AOQL [​ 8 ​marks]
(b) A vendor ships components in lots of 10,000. The Acceptable Quality Level has been
specified at 0.10% and the Rejectable Quality Level at 1%.
(i) Suggest suitable Normal, Tightened and Reduced Sampling (Single) inspection plans
assuming General Inspection Level II (ii) Draw OC curves for the above three plans and Compare (1) Producer's
Risk and
(2) Consumer's Risk
[6+6 ​= ​12 marks]
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4. ​(a) ​A box containing 200 thermo couples are submitted for inspection. The upper specification limit is
140°C while the lower specification limit is 120 °C. It is desired to have an ​AQL ​of2.5% and inspection level
IV. ​The following are the test data for 20 samples.

127 139 132 140 125.4 132 133 135 132


127.6 130 128 128 133 129.2 137 124
138 131.6 130

Should the lot be accepted or rejected. ​[10 ​marks]

(b) ​A ​firm produces an electrical gadget that has three components in series with reliability 0.9, 0.8 and 0.99
respectively. The ​firm ​is concerned about the low reliability ofthe system and decides to provide redundancy for the
two least reliable components. How much percentage increase ​in ​reliability is now achieved? ​[10 ​marks]

5. Write a briefNote on:


(i) ​Control Chart for Individual Measurements (ii) Five ​(5) ​Non-Standard patterns (graphical) of Control Charts. (iii)
Double and Multiple Sampling Plans. (iv) Bath-Tub Curve. [4x5 ​= ​20 ​marks]

END OF QUESTION PAPER

© ​The University ofthe West Indies Course Code IENG 3005 2010 December

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