Taguchi methods: a hands-on approach

"This clear, practical book explains exactly how you can design and perform experiments using Taguchi methods from square one to completion - offering detailed examples to illustrate how these methods can work for you in a variety of situations. The step-by-step approach of this ground-breaking book allows you to get started quickly, and to successfully complete the four basic phases of experimentation - planning, designing, conducting the experiment, and analyzing the results. If you are responsible for quality improvement, you'll want to turn to these pages for a working knowledge of the basic tools of Taguchi methodology, including defining quality characteristics, selecting variables, designing experimental strategy, removing experimental bias, accounting for missing and infeasible data, and uncovering multiple quality characteristics." "Whether your focus is on product design, process start-up, or production problem-solving, Taguchi Methods: A Hands-On Approach To Quality Engineering will help you accelerate the application of these techniques. Designed to help working engineers and quality practitioners measure and choose options, this book is an essential guide to the key terms and principles of Taguchi methods."--BOOK JACKET.

1. Conceptual background. History -- Contributions to quality -- Quality engineering -- Using experimentation. 2. Forming the experimentation team. Establishing goals -- Determining who can best impact the goal -- Selection of the team leader. 3. Determining the objectives. Examining the process and product -- Defining the quality characteristic. 4. Measurement considerations. Measurement planning -- Instrument availability -- Instrument resolution -- Instrument accuracy/repeatability -- Test operator/inspector -- Measurement environment -- Classified attribute measurements -- Sampling requirements.

5. Selecting the independent variables. Listing the variables of interest -- Screening the list of variables -- Classifying the variables -- Specifying parameter settings -- Potential interaction concerns -- White powder case study. 6. Experimental strategy. Single experiments -- Continuous experiments -- Screening experiments -- Focusing experiments -- Sequential experiments. 7. Orthogonal arrays. Orthogonality -- Terminology -- Analysis -- Interactions -- Orthogonal array series. 8. Degrees of freedom. Concepts -- Calculations. 9. Linear graphs. Concepts -- Assigning factors to line…