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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