PLEASE ANSWER IN A MEANINGFUL WAY. IF POSSIBLE CITE SOURCE (OPERATION MANAGEMENT CLASS)

Quality Management plays a number of roles as our leaders struggle to deal with the

pandemic. For example, the reliability of tests could be analyzed in the context of control charts.

There have been innovative approaches to trying to detect new outbreaks by using national data

collected by home use of smart thermometers like Kinsa. Determine how control charts might be

used to detect new virus hotspots. Things to consider:

Samples are not taken in the way we are used to, at regular intervals. Rather, there may be

sparse data until an outbreak begins. What is the effect of this? How can we establish a

baseline?

How reliable are the data? Can we aggregate data from different companies?

What other ways are used to detect new hotspots? How does the home temperature

method compare to these other approaches?