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.

This exercise contains only part d.

d) Complete a fish-bone chart showing the possible causes of the defective shipments.

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Match each number in the chart with the corresponding cause.

Number

Cause

I

II

III

Mislabeled product

Trucks break down

Drivers have no incentive

Poor shipping container quality

IV

Trucks break down

Drivers have no incentive

Mislabeled product

Poor shipping container quality

Boston Electric Generators has been getting many

Material Machinery II Not appropriate tie-down Data lost in computer Defective shipment IV Incorrect loading instructions Need more drivers Methods Manpower

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