Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement, 4th Edition

12Experimental Design and the Taguchi Method

1. 12-1 Introduction and Chapter Objectives
2. 12-2 Experimental Design Fundamentals
3. 12-3 Some Experimental Designs
4. 12-4 Factorial Experiments
5. 12-5 The Taguchi Method
6. 12-6 The Taguchi Philosophy
7. 12-7 Loss Functions
8. 12-8 Signal-to-Noise Ratio and Performance Measures
9. 12-9 Critique of S/N Ratios
10. 12-10 Experimental Design in the Taguchi Method
11. 12-11 Parameter Design in the Taguchi Method
12. 12-12 Critique of Experimental Design and the Taguchi Method
13. Summary

Symbols
yij.	Response variable for jth experimental unit assigned to treatment i
	Average response of treatment i
	Average response of the jth block
	Grand mean of all observations
	Response variable value for the ith level of the first factor, jth level of the second factor, and the kth replication
	Average response for the ith level of the first factor
	Average response for the ...