Some practical considerations in the design of manufacturing process experiments

Abstract

The efficiency of empirical studies aimed at establishing the cause-and-effect relationships between the manipulable parameters of a manufacturing process and the resultant measurable process behavior can be greatly enhanced by the appropriate application of experimental design methodologies. Some techniques of selecting suitable experimental parameter settings in the face of certain special process characteristics and operational constraints are discussed in this paper with particular reference to fractional factorial designs. © 1989.