Design of Experiments

Courses: Statistics and Experiment Design
  • Course:Design of Experiments
  • Course ID:DOE1 Duration:1 day Where: Your Office (7+ Persons)
  • Available as a private, customized course for your group at your offices or ours and in some cases as a WebLive(TM) class.

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Course Outline

  • The Nature of the Challenge
    • Product and process design
    • Product and process robustness
    • Identifying potential key performance parameters
    • Deterministic versus probabilistic thinking
  • Basic Probability and Statistics Concepts
    • The normal curve: Its history and mathematics
    • Means and standard deviations
    • Using normal curves, means, and standard deviations to predict probabilities of occurrence
    • Confidence levels
    • Sample size considerations
    • Testing for normalcy
    • Exceptions to the normal curve
  • Basic Design of Experiments Approaches
    • The z-test
    • The t-test
    • Analysis of variance (ANOVA)
    • Fractional factorial experiments and Taguchi testing
  • Applications
    • Test plans
    • Test readiness reviews
    • Using Excel’s built in statistical analysis features
    • Case studies
  • Course Wrap-up: Recap, Q/A, and evaluations
Course Overview

Course in a Nutshell

This course brings together important concepts that allow engineering and operations organizations to understand design of experiments approaches,capabilities, and terminology. We will explain basic statistical concepts and show how they can be used to optimize both the product’s design and its manufacturing process.

The course covers brainstorming, Ishikawa diagrams, mind-mapping, quality assurance databases, and other approaches for identifying potential key performance parameters, and then structures an organized approach for systematically and quantitatively determining which of these have significant impacts. The course utilizes real-life case studies to help you understand these technologies. At the end of the course, you will have a basic understanding of design of experiments tools, technologies, terminology, and capabilities.

 

Customize It!

An extended two-day version of this course that covers the subject in greater depth and/or includes applications specific to your organization is available.

 

Learn How To

  • Work together in an effective team environment to resolve product and process optimization challenges.
  • Use the technologies presented in this training to identify key product design and manufacturing process tolerances and control limits.
  • Reduce or eliminate areas of specification non-compliance.
  • Reduce or eliminate scrap and rework causes.
  • Proactively eliminate potential product and process shortfalls before they occur.
Audience / Prerequisites

Aimed At

This course is aimed at technical personnel involved with developing and optimizing product and process design.

 

Prerequisites

While there are no formal prerequisites, the course assumes a process, industrial, manufacturing, or engineering background.