Question: BATCH PRODUCT MACHINE EMPLOYEE BATCH SIZE NUM DEFECTIVE 1 A 1 333 10000 320 2 B 3 555 200000 200 3 C 2 222 100000
BATCH PRODUCT MACHINE EMPLOYEE BATCH SIZE NUM DEFECTIVE 1 A 1 333 10000 320 2 B 3 555 200000 200 3 C 2 222 100000 260 4 C 4 444 20000 240 5 B 2 333 20000 100 6 B 3 111 100000 180 7 C 4 222 200000 400 8 A 1 333 200000 280 9 A 2 111 100000 340 10 C 3 555 10000 380 11 B 1 333 10000 80 12 C 3 444 20000 140 13 A 4 222 100000 100 14 C 2 333 200000 160 15 C 3 111 200000 420 16 A 1 111 100000 300 17 A 2 111 10000 120 18 A 4 444 10000 180 19 A 3 333 10000 0 20 B 2 222 20000 300 21 A 3 555 200000 240 22 B 4 333 200000 200 23 C 3 444 200000 160 24 C 4 222 100000 240 25 B 3 555 20000 120 26 B 2 111 20000 160 27 B 2 222 100000 100 28 C 3 333 200000 360 29 C 4 444 10000 300 30 C 1 555 10000 80 31 A 2 444 200000 260 32 A 1 555 10000 100 33 B 3 333 100000 360 34 C 1 222 20000 220 35 C 4 444 20000 460 36 B 2 111 100000 280 37 A 3 333 10000 60 38 C 4 222 200000 180 39 A 2 444 100000 20 40 A 3 222 20000 300 41 B 1 222 20000 380 42 B 2 222 100000 60 43 C 4 222 200000 0 44 B 2 333 10000 240 45 C 3 111 10000 120 46 B 4 444 200000 160 47 B 3 222 10000 100 48 C 1 555 100000 360 49 C 4 444 20000 300 50 A 2 555 20000 80 51 A 3 111 100000 260 52 A 1 222 10000 100 53 A 2 333 200000 360 54 B 3 444 10000 220 55 A 3 555 100000 460 56 B 2 222 20000 280 57 C 1 111 20000 60 58 C 3 333 100000 180 59 B 2 222 10000 340 60 B 3 444 200000 380 61 B 4 333 100000 80 62 C 4 555 20000 140 63 C 2 444 20000 100 64 C 3 111 100000 160 65 A 1 222 200000 420 66 A 2 111 10000 300 67 B 3 222 10000 120 68 C 2 333 200000 180 69 B 3 444 10000 0 70 A 4 222 200000 300 71 C 2 555 100000 240 72 C 3 444 20000 200 73 C 1 555 10000 160 74 B 3 333 10000 240 75 A 2 111 200000 120 76 A 3 555 100000 160
Established by Ira Kelly in 2015, Kelly's Gloves has grown rapidly. Kelly's produces it own unique branded gloves in 3 styles known as A, B & C. However, while ramping up its production, Ken Dolls (Kelly's quality manager for the production plant) has noticed a disturbing number of defective gloves coming out of production.
In every production batch exactly one out of 3 types of gloves is produced by one employee on one production machine. Kelly's has 4 production machines (1,2,3,4) and 5 employees (known as 111,222,3333, 444 & 555). So, there are 3* 4* 5 (60) possible combinations of employee, machine and product.
Indeed, since there are 4 different batch sizes that are run (10000, 20000, 100000 & 200000) it might be more accurate to say that there are really 240 potential permutations. Of course, many combinations will wind up never occurring.
Mr. Dolls has hired you to assist Kelly's in determine where the production defects are concentrated. He has provided you with a listing of the most recent 75+ production batches from the plant. He would like you to use Excel's PivotTable and conditional formatting features to perform analyses on the data in order to figure out what factors (or factor) are driving these production errors.
Here is a description of the data he has provided you with:
a. Batch: A unique number that identifies each batch produced. b. Product: A unique letter that identifies each product. c. Machine: A unique number that identifies each machine on which products are produced. d. Employee: A unique number that identifies each employee producing products. e. Batch Size: The number of products produced in a given batch. f. Num Defect: The number of defective products produced in a given batch.
- Analyze the source data and determine what factor (or factors) are causing errors (defective gloves) in the production batches
- Write up a document file describing your approach to this problem and what your analysis revealed
- Provide recommendations
- Reference the labeled worksheets you have created in your Spreadsheet analysis
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