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assign (something) to

To designate someone as responsible for doing something, or as responsible for having done something. Oh, I already assigned that project to Nicole. Since I was driving when we got into the accident, they assigned the blame to me.

assign someone or something to someone or something

to designate someone or something as belonging to someone or something else. They assigned the new car to Roger. They assigned the new worker to the mail room.

assign something to someone

to attribute something to someone; to blame something on someone. We were forced to assign the blame to Robert. They assigned the responsibility for the accident to the driver of the car.

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These problems which may occur either downstream or midstream in the manufacturing process, usually have assignable causes of variation further upstream.

Utilization of the rubber process analyzer in Six Sigma programs

Assumptions 5-10 are related to the expected time of occurrence of assignable causes and shifts in the process mean and variance for the interested quality characteristic.

An optimal design of joint X and S control charts using quadratic loss function

An individual member charting out of control suggests a local assignable cause.

New SPC technique excels for multicavity molds

Panel 1 shows the proportions of each activity assignable to the three segments.

Reasonable joint cost allocations in nonprofits

The court found that the letter of credit fulfilled all of the Cowden standards required for realization when received: it was issued by a solvent maker, unconditional, assignable, and not subject to set-off.

Barriers to the application of the constructive receipt doctrine

The i-Control features: intuitive navigation; large color touch screen interface; controls up to 4 bioreactors with features such as 8 mass flow controllers; up to 6 assignable pumps, 2 DO, 2 PH and 2 Temp; and the ability to use the same system to control autoclavable, disposable or SIP bioreactors (even CIP).

Bioprocess controller can control up to four bioreactors

The panel has three independent partitions and 48 user codes, each with assignable authority levels.

Security system

The cause-selecting charts are designed to further distinguish between controllable assignable causes and uncontrollable assignable causes.

The economic design of control charts when there are dependent process steps

Part of the process of using SPC is to indentify "assignable caustatics," or special sources of variation in a process (ref.

Optimal measurement, use of dynamic properties from the MDR for compound analysis

An Assignable Cause feature lets operators document the source of the upset.

Plenty of extrusion news at CMM Show

The reduction is otherwise not assignable or transferable.

Shifting income among family members

Contribution to profit is the difference between revenue and the directly assignable costs associated with doing business.

A better way to check a company's financial health

* Conversion of 79,316 net assignable square feet of space in the "Y" Building on the CCNY campus into a new, $58.6 million home for the School of Architecture, Urban Design and Landscape Architecture, designed by Rafael Vinoly with state-of-the-art environmental features.

$285m CCNY spending spree will help put college on the map

Then, the assignable cause, which is accountable for the problem and is designated as active assignable cause, has to be found in order to bring the process back to control.

Diagnosis of assignable cause in statistical process control

Basically, this means the batches currently in production are running as usual, with no assignable causes of variation affecting the quality.