... Limited 2016 Design of experiments Lean Six Sigma Systematic literature review Higher education Academic leadership Taguchi methods In a globalised world, all countries are trying to educate their people to enable their nation to prosper using World class universities. A term used...

... of these factors is also estimated to develop an empirical expression between process performance and independent input variables. Design/methodology/approach Optimization technique for melt shop process parameters of a cast iron differential housing cover based on the Taguchi method is proposed. The focus...

...Zahid A. Khan; Ibrahim A. Al‐Darrab Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate application of the Taguchi method‐based conceptual signal‐to‐noise (S/N) approach and Pareto analysis of variance (ANOVA) to determine optimum level of three important factors related...

...Ibrahim A. Al‐Darrab; Zahid A. Khan; Mohamed A. Zytoon; Sheikh I. Ishrat Purpose The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate application of the Taguchi method to determine the optimum level of three important parameters (factors) related to the use of a mobile phone for the text message entering...

..., y_2j…y_mj (j=1, 2…r). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Design Quality control Taguchi methods Food manufacturing processes Non parametric measures There is an ever‐increasing need for producing complex products in short cycle times...

... costs are included. Asymmetric quality loss is also common in cases such as the scrap cost is different from the rework cost. Process analysis Taguchi methods Function evaluation Quantitative methods In today's business environment, it is becoming more and more important for companies...

..., and in the methods used to populate the OA, which are described in detail in the following section. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2005 Design Process efficiency Optimization techniques Neural nets Taguchi methods Retrospective Taguchi makes use of a historical process database to gain...

...Jeroen de Mast Quality improvement is understood by Juran to be the systematic pursuit of improvement opportunities in production processes. Several methodologies are proposed in literature for quality improvement projects. Three of these methodologies – Taguchi's methods, the Shainin system...

... parameters of the control chart. The final section offers conclusions. The description of Duncan's model and the notation as defined in Montgomery (1993) will be adopted. This model is presented here so that the paper is self‐contained. © MCB UP Limited 2003 Taguchi methods...

...Hung‐Chang Liao; Yan‐Kwang Chen Looks at the Taguchi method, a traditional approach that seeks to obtain the best combination of factors with the lowest societal cost solution to achieve customer requirements, and also principal component analysis (PCA). States that the Taguchi method can only...

... to be one‐off and independent in nature, and specific tools are seldom identified and used in the larger context of the seven‐step progression. A case in point is the introduction of Taguchi methods (Taguchi, 1986; Kacker, 1985; Goh, 1993) to statistically unsophisticated personnel: many of the problems...

..., and more importantly increased market shares. Also, despite some prominent features offered by some of the more advanced quality related techniques, such as quality function deployment technique (QFD) and the Taguchi methods, our survey showed that very few electronic firms in the sample have actually...

...}\right], respectively. If a geometrical design matrix is expressed as left‐half and right‐half parts such as [A₁, A_r] in the previous section, then three interesting confounding relationships can be observed as below: © MCB UP Limited 1999 Taguchi methods Design...

... Models Regression analysis Taguchi methods This paper presents a regression metamodel for a multi‐echelon maintenance float system. The model is based on the use of Taguchi’s approach in determining the experimental design plans. Barlow et al. (1965) initially introduced the concept...

... Process efficiency Taguchi methods Design of experiments (DOE) is one of the powerful tools used to investigate deeply hidden causes of process variation. DOE techniques are useful for surfacing the effects of hidden variables, and studying possible effects of variables during process design...

... production process International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 28 No. 1, pp. 29-45. Barker, T.B. (1986), ``Quality engineering by design: Taguchi's philosophy Quality Progress, December, pp. 32-42. Bendell, Disney, Pridmore (Eds) (1989), Taguchi Methods, McGraw-Hill, New York, NY. Brandolese, A. (1994...

... condition, and the other to forecast the system’s response value. A measuring system employed in semiconductor manufacturing demonstrates the proposed approach’s effectiveness. According to those results, the proposed approach outperforms the conventional Taguchi method. By using the proposed approach...

...) + E (T_{sr)(3) where © MCB UP Limited 1998 Control charts Loss Statistics Taguchi methods Saniga (1989) defines an economic statistical design of a control chart as a design in which the economic‐loss cost function is minimized subject to a constrained minimum value}...

...Lee‐Ing Tong; Chao‐Ton Su; Chung‐Ho Wang The Taguchi method is the conventional approach used in off‐line quality control. However, most previous Taguchi method applications have dealt only with a single‐response problem. The multi‐response problem has received only limited attention. Proposes...

... the sensor inputs, monitor the quality of products, and take corrective actions on a real‐time basis. © MCB UP Limited 1996 Artificial intelligence Knowledge‐based systems Product design Taguchi methods Global competition and the current economic conditions have forced many...