Designed Experiments in Process Improvement

摘要

Statistically designed experiments are an important tool for the quality and/or reliability engineer. Their role in improvement and optimization of manufacturing processes has been well documented. Designed experiments have been used in industrial process development for well over 50 years, so one might expect that new and important developments are relatively infrequent. However, experimental design is a vibrant field of research. This is being spurred on by applications beyond the traditional manufacturing process arena, and by the discovery that variations of old techniques have new and modern applications.