A project manager notices that all the measurements recorded on a control chart lie within the control band range. However, most of the measurements are below the midpoint (negative variance). Quality management practice offers us what guidance in dealing with this situation?

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• Quality in a project's product is essential for the enhancement of the project manager and the selling organization. To ensure that the customer perceives a quality product, the project manager must inform the ustomer of the ______________ to be used so the customer will not have a perception of ______________.
• The key to quality is to design and build to the requirements and avoid attempts to inspect quality into the product. There is a need, however, to conduct inspections a critical junctures in the assembly process to ensure defective items are identified prior to making a costly interface or concealing a physical attribute that cannot be inspected at a later time. Inspection plan will identify the points at which examinations of processes, materials, or assemblies are required. However, inspection plans normally do not include ______________.
• An acceptance control chart has limits that are based on the specification limits for the product rather than limits which differentiate between random and assignable causes. Under which if the following circumstance should a QC manager consider using an acceptance control chart?
• The same quality control manager decides to increase his daily sample size from three to six. The size of the control band will:
• For a point in the control chart to be out of control, it must lie
• Control chart theory is based on the differences of the causes of variations in quality. Variations in quality may be produced by assignable causes. All of the following are examples of assignable causes except:
• In a quality management information system, there is a need to collect data and format such data into an information output that is useful to the project manager. In developing such an information system, it is good to remember that an optimum system does not supply all the information because ______________.
• Factory A produces 100 pieces of wooden legs used in manufacturing tables in 1 hour. The factory in total works for 3 hours. The quality manager decided to check the quality of the output by measuring the length of the legs (in cms). He decides to collect three samples (one for each hour). The sample size for each sample is fixed at 5. The data collected is present in the following table: What is the mean and range of leg length in sample 1?
• In the area of quality, project managers are struggling with the training and indoctrination of individuals in the need to do the work right the first time to conform to the requirement. Occasionally, the project manager will discover an individual, either in the planning or actual work, doing more than is called for in the specification. These individuals need training to reduce the level of "over building" because ______________.
• From the project manager's perspective, quality management is ______________ limited to assessing the attributes of the tools provided to do the work.