Using Taguchi methods to improve the production process quality a case study

Total Quality Management and Business Excellence

Volumn 20, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1189-1212

  Dura, Codruţa ^a   Isac, Claudia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PETROSANI   (Romania)

Author keywords

Experiment matrix; Factor adjustment; Optimisation of production parameters; Quality criterion; Quality loss function; Signal noise ratio; Standard deviation

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049086977     PISSN: 14783363     EISSN: 14783371     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/14783360903247569     Document Type: Article

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