Deck 2: Measurement and Quality

Question 1

The ____ is the workhorse in the machine shop for high-precision measurement.

A) steel rule
B) vernier
C) caliper
D) micrometer

Answer 1

D

Question 2

____ are simple designations for the size of a feature in the appropriate units.

A) Resolutions
B) Deviations
C) Dimensions
D) Tolerances

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Statistics are qualitative data that describe a group of people or things.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

What has remained the same about calipers, and what has changed?

Question 5

____ manufacturing is the practice, tools and philosophy of manufacturing efficiency first developed in Japan by Toyota Motors.

A) Descriptive
B) Statistical
C) Variable
D) Lean

Question 6

Give an overview of lean manufacturing.

Question 7

What are descriptive statistics?

Question 8

Measuring systems of the past were often based upon anatomical attributes.

Question 9

The manufacturing competition for America in recent history has come from Europe-specifically France.

Question 10

The ____ is a specific statistical measurement that shows the variability of a sample (or population) from the average.

A) standard deviation
B) median
C) mean
D) mode

Question 11

Discuss circumstances in which the inch is appropriate and inappropriate as a measurement unit.

Question 12

The first order of business for the blueprint is to describe the shape of the object.

Question 13

Metric micrometers are designed to read to 1/1000th millimeter.

Question 14

When we look at orthographic projections, we are viewing the face of the object from a(n) ____.

A) corner
B) right angle
C) acute angle
D) obtuse angle

Question 15

A(n) ____ is a concept in statistics that describes how a group of measurements will have variation from the average.

A) engineering computation
B) distribution
C) histogram
D) orthograph

Question 16

The ____ is simply the smallest unit to which a measuring tool can be read.

A) resolution
B) tolerance
C) mean
D) median

Question 17

The ____ is the distance between the biggest and smallest measurement in a sample.

A) range
B) distribution
C) population
D) variability

Question 18

____ is the difference between the measured value and the actual value.

A) Precision
B) Standard deviation
C) Accuracy
D) Tolerance

Question 19

Statistical ____ attempts to use statistics to predict how a manufacturing operation is going to perform.

A) process control
B) manufacturing
C) flexibility control
D) sampling

Question 20

What are some other names for engineering drawings?