... in an effective way (Benyounis and Olabi, 2008). Various DOE techniques such as Taguchi method, response surface methodology and factorial design have been used for extracting information from the defined experimental runs. Srivastava and Garg used Box Behnken Design technique of response surface methodology...

... only This section reviews the pertinent literature to the present study including VSM, Taguchi method and simulation optimization. We first introduce the manufacturing process for the case problem. Partial data are adopted from Wang et al. (2018) . Silicon wafers...