Experiment Design Made Easy

Identify the Vital Few Effects—Make Breakthrough Improvements

Find out how to make breakthrough improvements using powerful design of experiments (DOE) techniques. Stat-Ease, Inc. puts it all together for you in a computer-intensive series of DOE workshops. Try out your skills along the way with realistic simulations. Start with our Experiment Design Made Easy workshop to learn efficient methods for finding which factors you need to focus on. Discover previously unknown interactions. These often prove to be the key to success. Learn how to use powerful statistical methods that give you confidence in your findings.


Apply Tried and True Techniques

Experiment Design Made Easy covers the practical aspects of DOE. You learn all about simple but powerful two-level factorial designs. The workshop follows the standard approach outlined in Douglas Montgomery's book, "Design & Analysis of Experiments." (The text is optional. Students may also purchase the DOE Simplified book if they like.) During this introductory DOE workshop, you will discover how to effectively:
•  Implement the DOE Planning Process
•  Augment low-resolution designs
•  Interpret analysis of variance (ANOVA) •  Discover hidden interactions
•  Exploit efficient fractional designs
•  Screen variables to find the vital few, even in the presence of active interactions
•  Determine when to use transformations
•  Explore categorical factors with general factorials

Choose the Best Strategy

The "Experiment Design Made Easy" workshop helps you plan your DOE by selecting the appropriate designs. It guides you through your experiment and strategical analysis.

"Practical. Good mix of theory and application."
—Chris Easter, Metallurgist


Simulations Provide Practice
Use Design-Expert ? software to practice designing and analyzing experiments throughout the workshop. The software provides easy-to-use graphical tools to find key variables and view results.  You will be given a path to all simulation and data files used in class, which are posted to a special Internet site where you can also link to a free fully-functional, but time-limited, copy of Design-Expert software for use after class.

"Gives you the 'hands-on' that puts it all together."
—Matt Hanken, Senior Manufacturing Engineer


Experiment Design Made Easy (3 days)

Day 1
Section 1—Two-Level Full Factorials
· DOE—It's a process
· Design construction
· Step-by-step analysis
· Advantage over one-factor-at-a-time (OFAT) approach
Lunch
Section 2—Enhancements for Full Factorials

· Review the two-level tutorial
· Explanation of power
· Explanation of outputs
· Multiple response optimization
· Replicated full factorial (with blocking)
· Factorial with center points
Section 3—Transformations
· Dangers of deleting outliers

Day 2
· Transformations
· Ball-bearing exercise
· Wave solder simulation
Section 4—Blocking and Fractionating Factorials
· How to set up optimal blocking
· Factors interacting versus factor interactions
Lunch
· Fractional factorials: Set-up and aliases
· "Planned Experimentation" video
· Homework assignment
Section 5—Further Fractionation
· Resolution V irregular fractions
· Minimum-run resolution V designs
· Screening in the presence of 2FIs
· Minimum-run resolution IV designs
· Ruggedness testing

Day 3
Section 6—General Factorial Design
· General factorial with replication
· Fractionating a general factorial
Section 7—Design Augmentation
· Full (all factors) foldover
Lunch
· One-factor foldover & semifold
· Better than augmentation
Section 8—Review and Overview
· Response surface overview
· Factorial with center points (revisited)
· Mixture design overview
· Homework review

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