Seminar Title: Understanding Taguchi Methods - Part 2

Length: 40 hours

Format: ten 4-hour sessions, meeting once a week over ten weeks, presented as an in-person event

Maximum Class Size: 25 attendees

Presented by: Bill Bellows (contact info below)

Registration Fee: there is NO fee to attend

Prerequisites: attend Understanding Taguchi Methods - Part 1

Description: Taguchi Methods represent a collection of techniques used for achieving more robust (higher quality) product or process designs. This course focuses on the use of parameter design to improve product, process or technology performance. Topics presented include the basis and assumptions of orthogonal arrays, the design of efficient, effective test plans for robustness and the review of various studies in depth.

Target Audience: Those actively involved in the development or systemic improvement (investment) of a product, manufacturing process or technology. The targeted participants are those individuals in particular who will have responsibility for leading the effort, designing the test plan or analyzing the results.

Organization Issues: More robust designs provide the opportunity to achieve higher product, process or technology quality at lower cost and in shorter development time.

Objectives: At the completion of the seminar, participants should have a deep appreciation and understanding of the philosophy, strategy, and terminology of designing for robustness and the ability to identify opportunities for robust design. They should be able to characterize engineered systems in terms of their intended functions, quality issues, components, as well as control and noise factors. They should also be able to develop and analyze a parameter design test plan so that they can support parameter design studies to systemically improve product, process and or technology robustness.

Contact: Bill can be reached by e-mail at william.bellows@pwr.utc.com for additional information about this seminar.