Classification of Factors and Choice of Quality Characteristics

  • Jiju Antony
  • Mike Kaye

Abstract

For manufacturing process optimization problems using Taguchi methods, the following factors are of interest to the experimenters:

  • control factors;

  • noise factors;

  • signal factors

A block diagram as shown in Figure 5.1 depicts those factors that influence the response (or the quality characteristic) of a product or process. In the block diagram, y stands for the response (quality characteristic/output). Here we consider only the case of a single response as the extension to multiple responses is straightforward.

Keywords

Control Factor Quality Characteristic Robust Design Noise Factor Orange Peel 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jiju Antony
    • 1
  • Mike Kaye
    • 1
  1. 1.Portsmouth Business SchoolUniversity of PortsmouthPortsmouthUSA

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