Guidelines to help practitioners of design of experiments

TQM Magazine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 386-399

  Costa, Nuno R P ^a   Pires, António R ^a   Ribeiro, Celma O ^b  

^a INSTITUTO POLITÉCNICO DE SETÚBAL   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Ceramics; Experimental design; Industrial design; Paints

Indexed keywords

CERAMIC MATERIALS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PAINT; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT;

EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INDUSTRIAL SECTOR; TECHNICAL SKILLS;

PRODUCT DESIGN;

EID: 33745238094     PISSN: 0954478X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09544780610671057     Document Type: Article

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