...Shishir Goyal; Aman Agarwal; Srikanta Routroy Purpose The objective of this paper is to compare and evaluate the environmental performance of steel supply chains considering relevant environmental loss factors using Taguchi loss function (TLF) and design of experiments (DOE). Design/methodology...

...Jiju Antony In the quest for continuous quality improvement for both products and processes, design of experiments based on Shainin’s Variables Search is still playing a pivotal role among engineers and quality control practitioners. Briefly describes the Variables Search Designs formulated...

... be highlighted. Many industrial engineers would not know what to do with the results. Engineers are often trained in designing an experiment and then analysing the results using a computer software product in ED. These software products often provide a black box approach to engineers in terms of interpreting...

... creative use of statistical techniques. For example two types of “programming”, genetic algorithms (GAs) and artificial neural networks (ANNs), are notoriously difficult to design as are usable human computer interfaces. In each of these three areas the Taguchi method of designing experiments has been used...