{"id":13464,"date":"2024-02-27T04:00:04","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T04:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/case-study-2-federated-screw-company-2024sp-quality-syst-process-impr-emgt-644-52\/"},"modified":"2024-02-27T04:00:04","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T04:00:04","slug":"case-study-2-federated-screw-company-2024sp-quality-syst-process-impr-emgt-644-52","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.writemyessays.app\/blog\/questions\/case-study-2-federated-screw-company-2024sp-quality-syst-process-impr-emgt-644-52\/","title":{"rendered":"Case Study #2 – Federated Screw Company \/ 2024SP Quality Syst\/Process Impr (EMGT-644-52)"},"content":{"rendered":"
2024SP Quality Syst\/Process Impr (EMGT-644-52)<\/a><\/div>\n

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Assignment :<\/font><\/p>\n


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Case
\nStudy #2:<\/span><\/b>      <\/span>Federated
\nScrew Company <\/span> <\/span><\/b><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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This is an individual
\nassignment. You will need to review the Federated Screw Company case study
\nbelow, perform the activities and answer the question at the end of the case
\nstudy:<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Federated Screw
\nCompany manufactures a wide variety of made-to-order screws for industrial
\ncompanies.  <\/span>The designs are usually supplied
\nby customers. Total manufacturing payroll is 260 people with sales of about $28
\nmillion. Operations are relatively simple but geared towards high volume
\nproduction. Wire in rolls is fed at high speeds to heading machines, where the
\ncontour of the screw is formed. Pointers and slotters perform secondary
\noperations. The thread-rolling operation completes the screw configuration.
\nHeat treatment, plating, and sometimes baking are the final steps and are
\nperformed by an outside contractor located nearby.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The following notes have been made available
\nfrom Federated Screw Company:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n

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 <\/span>The Quality Control Department is primarily a
\nFinal Inspection Department (eight inspectors), which also inspects the
\nincoming wire. One additional patrol inspector in the Heading Room checks for
\nthe first and last pieces of each run. The QC department also handles the
\nchecking and setting of all ring, snap, and plus gages used by themselves and
\nproduction personnel. An inspector\u2019s salary is approximately $34,000 per year.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Quality during manufacture
\nis the responsibility of the operator setup teams assigned to batteries of
\nabout four machines each. It is difficult to estimate how much of their time is
\nspent checking setups or checking the running of the machines, so you have not
\ntried to do this as yet.  <\/span>Production has
\ntwo sorting inspectors, each earning $28,000, who sort lots rejected by Final Inspection.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Engineering
\nDepartment prepares quotations, designs tools, plans the routing of jobs,<\/span><\/p>\n

and establishes
\nquality requirements working from customers\u2019 prints. They also do trouble shooting
\n(firefighting), at a cost of about $40,000 a year. Another $26,000 is spent in
\npreviewing customers\u2019 prints to identify critical dimensions, trying to get
\nsuch items changed by the customer, and interpreting customers\u2019 quality
\nrequirements into specifications for use by Federated inspectors and
\nmanufacturing personnel.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u0097 
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Records of scrap, rework, and
\ncustomer returns are meager, but they have been able to     <\/span>piece together a certain amount of information from records and
\nestimates:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0097  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Scrap from Final Inspection rejections and
\ncustomer returns amounted to 438,000 and 667,000 pieces, respectively, for the
\nlast two months.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0097  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Customer returns requiring rework average
\nabout 1 million pieces per month.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0097  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Scrap generated during production is believed
\nto be about half of the total floor scrap (the rest not being quality related)
\nof 30,000 lb per month.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u0097  <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> <\/span>Final inspection rejects an average of 400,000
\nre-workable pieces per month. These are items that can be flat-rolled or re-rolled.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rough cost figures
\nhave been obtained from the accountants, who say that scrap items can be
\nfigured at $12.00 per thousand pieces, floor scrap at $800 per thousand pounds,
\nreworking of customer returns at $4.00 per thousand pieces, and flat rolling or
\nrerolling at $1.20 per thousand pieces. All of these figures are supposed to
\ninclude factory overhead.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The assignment requires
\nyou complete items 1, 2 and 3 below with a brief explanation supporting your
\nresponse to item 3.<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Prepare an annual cost of quality summary
    \n statement.                                                                              <\/span><\/span>The summary should
    \n highlight the different Quality cost categories as applicable (Appraisal,
    \n Prevention, Internal Failure and External Failure Costs).  <\/span>It should also tally up the costs and
    \n give the Quality cost as a percentage of sales.<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Complete graph(s) that would be useful
    \n in summarizing your results.<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. Does Federated appear to have the
    \n \u201cright\u201d breakdown of quality costs?<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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