Operations Management: Processes and Supply Chains, 12th Edition

Supplement G Acceptance Sampling Plans

Learning Goals

After reading this supplement, you should be able to:

1. Describe the tradeoffs between risk and quality level in the design of acceptance sampling plans.

2. Distinguish between single-sampling, double-sampling, and sequential-sampling plans, and describe the unique characteristics of each.

3. Develop an operating characteristic curve for a single-sampling plan, and estimate the probability of accepting a lot with a given proportion defective.

4. Select a single-sampling plan with a given acceptable quality level (AQL) and lot tolerance percent defective (LTPD).

5. Compute the average outgoing quality for a single-sampling plan.

Acceptance sampling is an inspection procedure used to determine whether to ...