Design of Experiments for Engineers and Scientists.pdf

Design of Experiments for Engineers and Scientists
by Jiju Antony




· ISBN: 0750647094
· Publisher: Elsevier Science & Technology Books
· Pub. Date: October 2003
Preface
Design of Experiments (DOE) is a powerful technique used for exploring new
processes, gaining increased knowledge of the existing processes and opti-
mizing these processes for achieving world class performance. The author's
involvement in promoting and training the use of DOE dates back to mid-
1990s. There are plenty of books available in the market today on this subject
written by classic statisticians though majority of them are suited to other
statisticians than to run-of-the-mill industrial engineers and business
managers with limited mathematical and statistical skills.
DOE never has been a favourite technique for many of today's engineers
and managers anizations due to the number crunching involved and the
statistical jargon incorporated into the teaching mode by many statisticians.
This book is targeted for people who have either been intimidated by their
attempts to learn about DOE or never appreciated the true potential of DOE
for achieving breakthrough improvements in product quality and process
efficiency.
This book gives a solid introduction to the technique through a myriad of
practical examples and case studies. The readers of this book will develop
a sound understanding of the theory of DOE and practical aspects of how to
design, analyse and interpret the results of a designed experiment. Throughout
this book, the emphasis is on the simple but powerful graphical tools for data
analysis and interpretation. All of the graphs and figures in this book were
created using Minitab version for Windows.
The author sincerely hopes that practising industrial engineers and man-
agers as well as researchers in academic world will find this book useful in
learning how to apply DOE in their own work