Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 10 March 2010 | 6:46 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, go to Quality Quiz. Submit your response by February 26 to be entered in the drawing.
Start reading the quiz.
Last month we met Quinn Quip, quality manager for Quince’s Quality Quiche in Quincy. In a market survey, Quinn wanted to determine the percent of outlets—restaurants, hotels, bakeries, and cafes, as well as private residents—in Quincy who sell or consume the quiche that his company makes. He took many samples of a (sample) size of 100. He found that on average 50 out of the 100 sampled use Quince’s Quality Quiche, and reported to his boss that half the town—give or take 2 percent—are customers.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Dan Frederick (Andersen Corporation)
Nayna Modi (Sentara Health Systems)
Walter Prowse (BAE Systems)
Breeda M Worthington (NHS UK)
and Donna Yeakel (Greene Tweed Co. Inc.)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 15 February 2010 | 8:57 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, go to Quality Quiz. Submit your response by February 26 to be entered in the drawing.
Start reading the quiz.
Quinn Quip is quality manager for Quince’s Quality Quiche located in the quiet quarter of commercial Quincy. Quince’s provides quality quiche to restaurants and other outlets throughout the world, but Quinn is especially interested in determining the percentage of local outlets that depend on Quince’s Quality Quiche.
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 13 January 2010 | 8:00 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, and a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics, go to Quality Quiz. Submit your response by January 29 to be entered in the drawing.
Start reading the quiz:
Cal Lesterol is a technician in the quality department of Fourlegs Furniture Manufacturing. His boss, Les Casteroyl, wants him to take greater initiative in presenting data to management, so when Cal brings Les a scatter diagram, Les is interested. He had prepared the chart to show that when the outside temperature went up, the number of defects in the chair leg assembly went down.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Jon Bartlett (Electrolux)
Martin Cable (Greenhouse Park Innovation Centre)
Stephanie Sullivan (Mid-States Rubber Products, Inc.)
John Venneri (Berkley Medical)
Rachael Wakeling (Amcor Resources)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 9 December 2009 | 8:24 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by December 31 to be entered in the drawing.
Here’s the quiz:
As he was making his patient rounds each day at St. Marble and Glass Hospital, Dr. D. Fib Rillayter kept running into evidence of patients in restraints—those who might be considered risks for hurting themselves or others if they were not restrained. Dr. D. Fib Rillayter knew that while many restraints were applied appropriately for only short periods of time, the mounting use of such restraints for prolonged periods of time was nonetheless troubling.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Bob Fullenkamp (American Honda)
Cyndi Lee (Mayo Clinic)
Neil Melbourne (Edscha AG)
Sandra Morris (GlobalMed Inc.)
Ryan Punch (Australian Springs)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 10 November 2009 | 7:26 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by November 30 to be entered in the drawing.
Our dauntless newly-appointed quality manager, Hartford Simsack, stumbled into the central limit theorem last month, with the help of Dr. Stan Deviation. While the concept seemed fascinating to him, it never occurred to him that it might be useful in understanding how control charts work. You will recall that he used Quality Gamebox to demonstrate the central limit theorem.
Winners of last month’s quiz who will get a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD each are:
Alejandra Bahena (Teleflex)
Sheldon Parmer (Hewlett-Packard Company)
Steve Salter (Morgan Advanced Ceramics)
Robert Tucker (Continental Crushing & Conveying)
and Karen Whitmire (BorgWarner)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 13 October 2009 | 7:07 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz by Professor Leary.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by October 27 to be entered in the drawing.
Predicting behavior of averages can be as fascinating as predicting the behavior of animals. Hartford Simsack, the intrepid quality manager for Greer Grate & Gate, sometimes thought of himself as a visitor to the zoo, watching his averages and trying to anticipate what to him was always a complete surprise in the behavior of data. “I never know if this is going to turn out to be a normal distribution or not,” he told his mentor, Dr. Stan Deviation.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Ellen Cone (Lanxess Corp.)
Craig James (FG Wilson)
Lyn Martin (Telstra)
Paul Smith, (Caterpillar Inc.)
Kristen G. van Bergen-Buteau (Littleton Regional Hospital)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 11 August 2009 | 8:47 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by August 27 to be entered in the drawing.
Anna Gramm is learning to make charts for Deer Dairy Farms, a small firm that produces ice cream. In evaluating the quality of the finished product, the company is insistent on consistency among all the ice cream that is shipped. For chocolate-chip-cookie-dough ice cream, for example, inspectors examine content for the number of chocolate chips and the amount of cookie dough in sample containers of the product. In addition, inspectors must evaluate creaminess factors and melt temperature for each sampled container, and must examine the container label to be sure that it accurately indicates contents, that it is applied straight, and that the printing is correct. This proofreading task was added to their task list after a shipment went out that proclaimed the name of the dairy as “Dear Diary,” so the firm is sensitive about its image.
Winners of last month’s quiz and who each gets a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Tony Armijo (Presbyterian Healthcare)
Lynn Billings (Petro-Canada)
Jonathan Downey (Schivo Precision, Ireland)
Ian Newsom (Lion Nathan, Australia)
Robert Todd (Fruit of the Loom).
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 14 July 2009 | 8:53 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by July 28 to be entered in the drawing.
Hart Faylior and his partner Ann S.Thesia are co-owners of a small medical supply firm, In a Heartbeat Inc., that manufactures devices related to cardiac care in hospitals, including adhesive disks for EKG tests and other disposable and non-disposable supplies. Their company’s customers include hospitals and clinics as well as other medical apparatus companies.
One of In A Heartbeat’s customers, St. Recover in the Long Run Critical Care Center, is demanding capability data, and Hart has instructed Ann to examine a process for capability. They decide to work through this study together, since they have never done capability analysis for any other customer.
Winners of last month’s quiz and who each gets a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD are:
Ron Ellison (Oz Minerals, Australia)
Dave Gorin (Humana, Inc.)
Pat Kennedy (Bridge of Weir Leather, UK)
Hope McCoy (OCI Wyoming)
Craig Nelson (Presbyterian Healthcare Services)
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 9 June 2009 | 8:41 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by June 26 to be entered in the drawing.
The Quiz: Fishing for answers
LaMal d’Mer is puzzled. LaMal and her sister Aqua d’Mer own and operate a plastics extrusion plant near the sea. The company, Synk R Swym, makes decorative items with an ocean theme. Some of these are clear plastic bubbles, molded plastic shells, and fish ornaments. Customers of the company, founded by their father Neptune d’Mer, are primarily retailers from the Midwest and large cruise ship companies who buy products for their passengers.
Winners of last month’s quiz and a copy of the Quality Quiz Classics DVD:
Joseph Clerx (Borealis Polymers N.V.)
Jean Crep (Fairview University Medical Center)
Chris Gray (The Hartford)
Tom Hobday (Rosebank Engineering)
Heidi Kappa (Delta Flexible Products, Inc.).
Congratulations!
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Quality Quiz from PQ Systems e-Line
Posted by: meikah | 12 May 2009 | 9:58 pm
PQ Systems through it’s Quality eline newsletter brings us another quality quiz.
For this month’s quiz, you get a chance to win a copy of the newly-released collection of Quality Quiz Classics. Submit your response by May 29 to be entered in the drawing.
Karmond Geeya is a quality technician for Coastal Cruisers Company, an organization that produces outboard motors for marine vessels. Geeya is responsible for final assembly of these motors, including paint and trim, and for inspection of each product prior to shipping. The inspection includes a variety of characteristics that represent components of quality that C.C.C. is interested in producing. One of the inspection processes addresses paint applications, where defects are detected and recorded as data for analysis. If there is a blemish in the paint, for example, the motor is rejected by the inspector.
