Managing for Quality and Performance Excellence 10th Edition by James Evans ,William Lindsay

Exercise 41

Note: Data sets for several problems are available in the Excel workbook C07Data in the Student Companion Site for this chapter. Click on the appropriate worksheet tab as noted in the problem (e.g., Prob. 7-5, etc.) to access the data.
A specification for the length of an auto part at Partscoches, Inc. is 15.0 ± 2.75 centimeters (cm). It costs $65 to scrap a part. Determine the value of k for the Taguchi loss function. Then, determine the expected loss if the process mean is found to be 14.95 cm with a variance of 0.85 cm 2.