... Lean Six Sigma Systematic literature review Higher education Academic leadership Taguchi methods L4; L8; L12; L16; and L32. The most appropriate design depends on the number of factors and levels chosen. Within Taguchi orthogonal arrays degrees of freedom are 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...

.... © 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. The utilization of design of experiments (DOE) has proved...

...; K =the maximum loss if the characteristic deviated from the target value; Process analysis Taguchi methods Function evaluation Quantitative methods U =the upper limit for the acceptable range of a quality characteristic; USL =the upper specification limit; LSL...

...), the approach which has been adopted for this research. This paper presents two alternative ways to investigate process parameter effects, using Taguchi methods and NN, without actual experimentation. This is achieved by using historical process data in the analysis. These methods do not require alteration...

...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...

... of the quality characteristic from its target value; A=cost of rework or scrap of a unit with quality characteristic deviating by Δ from the target; a₁=fixed sampling cost; © MCB UP Limited 2003 Taguchi methods Modelling Control charts Costs decision...

...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...

... 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 encountered in industry during the implementation of Taguchi’s parameter design routine (for example, Taylor et al...

..., 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...

... 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...

... (Hicks, 1973). © MCB UP Limited 1999 Maintenance 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...

... experiments involving many factors that are arranged in complex pattern. Today, there are mainly three principal approaches of DOE in practice. They are the classical or traditional methods, Taguchi’s methods, and Shainin methods. The traditional method is based on the work by Sir Ronald Fisher, who...

... 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...

... Limited 1998 Control charts Loss Statistics Taguchi methods Control charts are important tools of statistical quality control. These charts are used to decide whether a process has achieved a state of statistical control and to maintain current control of a process. The use of control...

...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...

... they are used to calculate the error terms for the units of the hidden layer as follows: The weights from the input layer to the hidden layer are then adjusted as in equation (2). © MCB UP Limited 1996 Artificial intelligence Knowledge‐based systems Product design Taguchi methods...