... the LSS for the steel galvanizing process in order to reduce the number of defects using various LSS tools, including 5S, Value stream map (VSM), Pareto chart, cause and effect diagram, Design of experiments (DoE). Findings Results revealed a significant reduction in nonvalue-added time in the process...

... optimise product quality and process efficiency of complex systems. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, a design of experiments (DoE) method was used to improve the development of complex products and manufacturing processes in the industry of automotive audio components. To identify the optimal...

... at: besseris@uniwa.gr 14 07 2019 26 09 2020 03 01 2021 08 03 2021 © Emerald Publishing Limited 2021 Emerald Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Reliability improvement Design of experiments Nonparametric screening Use-rate acceleration failure prediction...

... with the fuel sales and costs. Thus, the influential variables including the number of pumps and the number of pump operators need to be optimally determined. Design/methodology/approach The simulation was combined with design of experiments (DoE) techniques to achieve a predictable model for optimizing Gas...

... to the outcomes from a simple designed experiment. Moreover, the results of the experiment provided a greater stimulus for the wider applications of the technique to other processes across the case study HE sector. Research limitations/implications One of the limitations of the study is that the experiment...

...Anupama Prashar Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the application of Six Sigma/design of experiments (DOE) hybrid framework for improving damping force (DF) generation process in a shock absorber assembly unit. Design/methodology/approach The study adopted a case study...

... Limited Licensed re-use rights only Kaizen Design for Six Sigma Design of experiments Oil consumption SHAININ Across industry, Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) methodology has been widely used as a scientific approach to translate the voice of the customer into engineering metrics...

... at: steven.cox@dur.ac.uk 16 02 2015 09 06 2015 17 09 2015 © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2016 Emerald Group Publishing Limited Licensed re-use rights only Design of experiments Six Sigma Process capability Quality measurement Sampling plan Shainin A different...

...Stephen Anthony; Jiju Antony Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the ability to researchers of using design of experiments (DoE) as a structured and systematic approach to performing systematic literature reviews. The authors demonstrate a simple case study illustrating...

... of a kind of earphone terminal. Originality/value – The methodology used in this case can be easily extended to similar cases. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2015 Design of experiments Quality improvement Response surface methodology (RSM) is one of the most useful technologies...

... on the use of other methods instead of design of experiments, finding applications for multiclass MTS and finding an alternative for the SN ratio. Originality/value – This paper contains the publications in the field of MTS chronologically and shows different areas for developing and case studies...

... hardness profile using MTS methodology to reduce shaft failures and how to minimize the variation around the optimum hardness profile using design of experiments. Originality/value – To the best of author's knowledge, no study has been conducted to identify optimum hardness profile using MTS...

... the use of subjective approaches (Julien and Holmshaw, 2012). In this situation, extremely complex designs of experiments (DOE) can be impractical. Using less powerful screening techniques such as fractional factorials (Goh, 2001), will reduce the numbers of experiments needed (as all combinations...

... of a simple and unified method for dealing with aliasing should encourage the researchers and practitioners to assess aliasing when performing their experiments. Design of experiments (DOE) is a powerful technique for improving product or process quality and reducing their performance variability around...

...: © MCB UP Limited 2002 Taguchi methods Quality Design of experiments Data envelopment analysis Taguchi method is a traditional approach for robust experimental design that seeks to obtain a best combination set of factors/levels with lowest societal cost solution to achieve...

... quality engineering. In Step 7, statistical quality engineering culminates in the application of Design of Experiments (DOE) for investigating quality variation in terms of parameter settings in a product or process (Box et al., 1978; Condra, 1995). Procedures such as response surface...

... directly by using the NR method without looking up tables. © MCB UP Limited 1999 Taguchi methods Design of experiments Methodology In the Taguchi’s experimentations (1987), it is well known that orthogonal arrays, interaction tables, and linear graphs are provided for planning...

...R. Konda; K.P. Rajurkar; R.R. Bishu; A. Guha; M. Parson Design of experiments is one of the many problem‐solving quality tools that can be used for various investigations such as finding the significant factors in a process, the effect of each factor on the outcome, the variance in the process...

... throughout the system such as quality tracking, rework and the loss of repeat business. The resolution of the noise problem became a candidate as a breakthrough project. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Breakdown analysis Design of experiments Noise reduction Drawing on information...