Here's this month's issue of Quality eLine, a newsletter from PQ Systems, Inc. that provides industry news, case studies, quality tips, and information about software products and training services.

In this issue you will find:

• Design of experiments for the rest of us: DOEpack 2000 makes it easy

• Giant sewer district uses CHARTrunner-e to keep tabs on charts

• Quality Quiz: Another quiz from Professor ClearyÑand last month's winners!

• Six sigma and more: David Schwinn lists the benefits that Six Sigma will bring you

• Tech tip: Psst: Want a secret shortcut? Here's a useful feature of DOEpack 2000 you might not know about

Design of experiments for the rest of us: DOEpack 2000 makes it easy
Check out this new 32-bit Windows-based version of our popular DOEpack. Easy to try out for 30-day free trial, even easier to use to create designed experiments to discover winning combinations. Learn more at designexperiments.htm

Giant sewer district uses CHARTrunnner-e to keep tabs on charts 
CHARTrunner and its web-based counterpart CHARTrunner-e help keep this metropolitan service humming with updated charts when they're needed. For more, click here.

Quality Quiz: Another question from Professor ClearyÑand last month's winners
Winners of last month's quiz (and a copy of Quality Gamebox) are: Gnanendra Acharjya (Algood Casters); Doris Bennett (National Textiles); Gene Brinkmeier (Honeywell); Mary Hott (TG Fluid Systems); William LaFollette (Artesyn Technologies); Robyn Litle (U.S. Department of Defense); Stephen Luko (The Torrington Company); Vernon Myers (Engineered Carbons); Steven Neifert (Consolidated Cigar); Bill Smith (Agora Associates).Congratulations!

And now for July's question. After you have read the question, click on the response that you think is correct. As in previous quizzes, if you answer correctly, you can register to win a free copy of Quality Gamebox.

You are plant manager for the Six Sigma Company. Your firm's quality manager brings you an X-bar and R chart from production line #6. He is smiling broadly because the chart shows seven ranges below R bar, indicating that the process variability is now less than it had been.

The quality manager recommends that new control limits for the chart be created, asserting that the old R bar chart is no longer valid. He also suggests providing jelly donuts for the employees on line #6 tomorrow morning as a celebration of their success.

Question: Is the quality manager's recommendation a valid one?

Six sigma and more
In this month's column, David Schwinn lists the benefits that Six Sigma will bring you. Go to Six sigma and more.

Tech Tip 
Psst: Want a secret shortcut? Here's a useful feature of DOEpack 2000 you may not know. Find it at Tech Tip.

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