How much did productivity improve

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(1) Aztec Furnishings makes hand-crafted furniture for sale in its retail stores. The furniture maker has recently installed a new assembly process, including a new sander and polisher. With this new system, production has increased to 1999 pieces of furniture per month from the previous 1116 pieces of furniture per month. The percentage of defective items produced has dropped from 10.8% to 0.5%.

How much did productivity improve? %

How much of the improvement in productivity is due to improvements in quality? %

(2) Howard Plastics produces plastic containers for use in the food packaging industry. Last year its average monthly production included 19300 containers produced using one shift five days a week with an eight-hour-a-day operation. Of the items produced 14.7% were deemed defective. Recently, Howard Plastics has implemented a new quality improvement program. Its monthly production has changed to 15690 containers 4.5% defective.

What was the productivity before the new QIP? units/month

What is the new productivity with the new QIP? units/month

(3) Howard Plastics produces plastic containers for use in the food packaging industry. Last year its average monthly production included 19300 containers produced using one shift five days a week with an eight-hour-a-day operation. Of the items produced 14.7% were deemed defective. Recently, Howard Plastics has implemented a new quality improvement program. Its monthly production has changed to 15690 containers 4.5% defective.

What was the productivity before the new QIP? units/month

What is the new productivity with the new QIP? units/month

(4) A company that makes kitchen chairs wants to compare productivity at two of its facilities. At Facility A, 60 workers produced 2520 chairs. At Facility B, 36 workers produced 1510 chairs during the same time period. Which facility was more productive?

Facility A or Facility B

What is the total productivity of the two facilities? chairs/worker

How much higher is the productivity of the more productive facility? %

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