Continuous Taguchi - A model-based approach to Taguchi's 'quality by design' with arbitrary distributions

Quality and Reliability Engineering International

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 29-41

  Swan, D A ^a   Savage, G J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b Midnight Sun Solar Car Project   (Canada)

Author keywords

Continuous Taguchi; Full distribution information; Parameter and tolerance design; Quality; Taguchi method; Transformation method

Indexed keywords

INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

TAGUCHI METHOD;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 0031703911     PISSN: 07488017     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1638(199801/02)14:1<29::AID-QRE144>3.0.CO;2-A     Document Type: Article

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