The use of CAD (computer-aided design) is emerging as a new technology with the goal of reducing the time and money spent to produce and update design drawings. In some cases, the CAD is being used to control other computers and machines to manufacture basic components of equipment. Because the CAD software has the capability to perform checks of the design and make changes to designs as they are approved, there has been ______________.

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• An advertising executive is studying television-viewing habits of married men and women during prime time hours. On the basis of past viewing records, the executive has determined that during prime time, husbands are watching television 40% of the time. It has also been determined that when the husband is watching television, 40% of the time the wife is also watching. When the husband is not watching television, 30% of the time the wife is watching television. Find the probability that the wife is watching television in prime time.
• ______________ designs are research designs with more than one independent variable.
• The inspection of the project through the implementation phase is critical to ensure that quality standards are being met. The use of vendors is most often required to obtain critical materials, components, or sub-assemblies. To determine a vendor's capabilities to produce to the specifications, a "shop survey" or audit of the vendor may be required. e areas for the audit should include ______________.
• Quality control methods extend beyond the external characteristics of the product or components of the product. The types of testing of the product or components include ______________.
• Just-in-time (JIT) is the concept of reducing inventories to:
• Two major components of fitness of use are Quality of Design and ______________.
• In factorial designs, the number of times a condition is noted is called:
• Factorial designs allow us to study both ______________ effects of the independent variables on the dependent variables.
• In factorial designs, the response produced when the treatments of one factor interact with the treatments of another in influencing the response variable is known as
• The cost of quality has been argued as being primarily driven by the workers. When items were produced that did not meet the customers' expectations, the workers were "found" to be at fault. Current thinking is that management has at least ______________ percent of the responsibility for the cost of quality.