Question

A manufacturing company has been inspecting units of output from a process. Each product inspected is evaluated on five criteria. If the unit does not meet standards for the criteria it counts as a defect for the unit. Each unit could have as few as zero defects, and as many as five. After inspecting 2,000 units, they discovered 33 defects. What is the DPMO measure for this process

Answer 1

Answer:

3,300 defects

Explanation:

If there are 5 defect opportunities per unit, and 2,000 units were inspected, the number of defects per opportunity observed was:

$DPO = \frac{33}{5*2,000}\\DPO=0.0033$

Therefore, the number of defects per 1 million opportunities (DPMO) is:

$DPMO = 0.0033*1,000,000\\DPMO = 3,300$

The number of defects per 1 million opportunities (DPMO) for this process is 3,300.