Question: Boston Electric Generators has been getting many complaints from its major customer, Home Station, about the quality of its shipments of home generators. Daniel Shimshak,

Boston Electric Generators has been getting many complaints from its major customer, Home Station, about the quality of its shipments of home generators. Daniel Shimshak, the plant manager, is alarmed that a customer is providing him with the only information the company has on shipment quality. He decides to collect information on defective shipments through a form he has asked his drivers to complete on arrival at customers' stores. The forms for the first 284 shipments have been turned in. They show the following over the past 8 weeks:

Week

No. of

Shipments

No. of

Shipments with Defects

Reason for Defective Shipment

Incorrect

Bill of

Lading

Incorrect

Truckload

Damaged

Product

Trucks

Late

1 21 8 3 2 0 3
2 31 11 5 1 4 1
3 30 11 5 2 1 3
4 39 13 5 1 2 5
5 36 13 5 3 1 4
6 40 14 6 3 0 5
7 43 15 6 4 1 4
8 44 16 8 2 2 4

This exercise contains only part c.

c) Choose the correct Pareto chart for the type of defects that have occurred.

Boston Electric Generators has been getting many complaints from its major customer,

A. B. c. D. Number of defects Number of defects Number of defects Number of defects \begin{tabular}{|l|} \hline A: Trucks late \\ B: Incorrect bill of lading \\ C: Damaged product \\ D: Incorrect truckload \\ \hline \end{tabular}

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