FREE Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering Total Quality Management Questions and Answers

Question 1

The whole system's dependability is referred to as .

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System reliability

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Closed reliability

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Partial reliability

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Isolated reliability

Question 2

As the number of components rises, system dependability for series-connected components deteriorates.

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Decreases

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Increases

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Remains unchanged

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Cannot be determined

Question 3

As the number of components rises, system reliability for parallel-running components decreases.

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Increases

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Remains unchanged

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Decreases

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Cannot be determined

Question 4

The entire system will malfunction in a series configuration with five components if .

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any one of the components fail

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any four components fail

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any three components fail

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any two components fail

Question 5

The entire system will malfunction in a parallel configuration with five components if .

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all the components fail

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any one components fail

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any two components fail

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any three components fail

Question 6

When a predetermined number of failures occur in the sample, the life-test sample plans are .

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Failure-terminated

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Sequential

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Operation-terminated

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Time-terminated

Question 7

What does the "bathtub curve" graph indicate?

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Failure rate v/s Time

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Failure rate v/s Velocity

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Failure rate v/s Distance

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Failure rate v/s Mean

Question 8

A system consists of four interconnected components, two of which are reliable at 0.9 and the other two at 0.8 at the end of a year. At the end of a year, how reliable is the system?

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0.5184

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0.7

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0.8

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0.9

Question 9

Five robots work on a production line on a daily basis. What is the overall system reliability if each robot has a dependability of 0.95?

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0.7737

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1

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0.9

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0.95

Question 10

What is the individual dependability of five robots in a production line if the system reliability is 0.95?

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0.9897

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0.8143

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0.9354

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0.6535