Question: 3. Wonderful Bread has started a new oat-grain bread, and they do SPC to monitor the size of the loaves that are being manufactured. They

3. Wonderful Bread has started a new oat-grain

3. Wonderful Bread has started a new oat-grain bread, and they do SPC to monitor the size of the loaves that are being manufactured. They want to keep their customers happy (customer want at least a 10oz loaf if they are paying for a 10oz loaf) but yet they don't want to give away product that customers aren't paying for either (any loaf over 10oz they are not getting paid for). Over the year, they have determined the following control limits (their process was stable and in control at that time): UCL x-bar = 10.19, LCL x-bar = 9.78, UCL R = 0.66, LCL R = 0.29 a Recently, they observed these weights: Pkg 4 10.3 Weight of Package Sample Pkg 1 Pkg 2 Pkg 3 1 10.4 10.3 9.9 2 10.2 10.4 9.9 3 10.0 9.4 10.1 4 10.2 10.3 10.0 5 9.9 10.2 9.8 10.0 9.8 10.2 9.9 Is their process still in control? Why or why not

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