An application of experimental design for process optimisation

TQM Magazine

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 78-83

  Rowlands, Hefin ^a   Antony, Jiju ^b   Knowles, Graeme ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Optimization; Taguchi methods; United Kingdom

Indexed keywords

BRAKING; EDUCATION; INTEGRATION; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; PROCESS OPTIMIZATION; TAGUCHI METHODS; UNITED KINGDOM;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 9344222817     PISSN: 0954478X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/09544780010318325     Document Type: Review

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