Design of Experiments Training

Interactive learning

Why analyse other people's data and sit through Power-Point lectures when you can learn by designing and analyzing your own experiments?

Teamwork

You will work in terms as you develop a series of experiments to fine-tune the working of the knocks blocks machine. There are up to one dozen variables, some linear and some non-linear, that control the distance travelled by the blocks.

Applicable

The skills you learn will be directly applicable to projects back at your facilities. The course emphasizes the design of experiments when you face real-life constraints, such as time and budget, to solve real-life problems.

Knocks Blocks Machine

Ideal for learning DOE

The advantage of my “knocks-blocks” training method is that your engineers will learn to deal with the real-life issues involved in planning and executing experiments.

DOE course participants learn to reduce the variation in the knocks blocks machine through a series of experiments of increasing complexity and resolution.

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Design of experiments will help you identify sources of variation in business and process problems where there are many interacting contributing factors.

• Three-day course
• Taught at your facilities
• Option to combine it with projects
• Focus is application of techniques from knocks blocks to real life situations
• Use statistical software (such as Minitab^TM) to design and analyze experiments

"Great use of practical examples to explain theory." Nader Bayani, MDS Sciex

"Strongly recommended for designers." Eric Wu, MDS Sciex

"Phil has good interface with each of the students and challenges them to think through case problems, unlike a consultant going through a canned presentation."  Troy Washburn, TRW Automotive

Course Agenda--highlights

Use of Designed Experiments

What is a factor?

Experimenting is a learning process

Replication and Randomization

Designing full factorial experiments

Using Minitab for designing full factorial experiments

Designing fractional factorial experiments

Why use fractional factorial experiments?

Three factors in eight runs 2³

Three factors in four runs 2^3-1

Four factors in eight runs 2^4-1

Five factors in eight runs 2^5-2

The design resolution

Designing a fractional factorial experiment with Minitab

Blocking: dealing with nuisance variables

Adding blocks to a fractional factorial experiment with Minitab

Designing a blocked fractional factorial experiment with the knocks blocks machine

Covariates in designed experiments

Regression in process improvement

Analysis of covariance

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