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The Bully Boy Bagging Line

Things were not going well at Bully Boy Products (BBP). BBP was a regional producer of organic fertilizer, potting soil, growing loam, and various gardening products for the discriminating gardener. It had been founded in 1976 when two agriculture students had decided that something had to be done to provide better supplies for gardeners. As one of the founders said, "Living better chemically may be great for chemicals but it has no place when it comes to gardening supplies."

Since their founding, BBP had grown by always remem- bering their core competencies-quality, variety, and innovative organic groups. As a result of this growth, the managers of BBP decided in 2011 to expand their produc- tion facilities, including installation of a new automated bagging line. This system was designed to provide quick product changeovers, something critical to BBP given their wide and ever-changing product line. The bagging system was brought on line at the start of 2012. After four weeks of debugging, the system was thought to be ready for full-scale production. Yet, as soon as it started up, problems became evident. These problems took a variety of forms: bag- ging seams were poorly made at the top; some bags were overfilled, while other bags were underfilled; and some bags experienced various forms of rips (the most common form of defect). Whenever a bagging problem occurred, the standard operating procedure was to stop, clear the problem, write up the issue, and then restart production. Top management had decided that the situation in the bagging line was no longer acceptable-something had to be done. To that end, they asked Lisa Vickery to determine whether the bagging problems were random or systematic in nature. Lisa reviewed the production on the firm's large bag packaging line. There seemed to be much more variation in quality than she would normally expect. After calling for a summary of the data from production control, she received the BullyBoyBag.xlsx data (www.mhhe.com/swink2e) col-
lected over the last 16 work weeks.

1. What does this data tell you?

2. Which tools did you use to determine what is happening? (Hint: consider looking at the impact of staffing and day of the week.)

3. What management actions are appropriate? What would you recommend to Lisa Vickery?

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