When some of the current and alternative manufacturing processes are not capable, additional manufacturing options in materials and processes have to be explored. A common solution is to invest in new...

Up-to-date capability data for the manufacturing processes to build new products have to be available to the new product design team. The data can be used to calculate the design and manufacturing qua...

The implementation of a six sigma program in an organization necessitates several major activities: understanding the design quality of new products as measured by six sigma, knowing the capability of...

In current products, most of the process and product improvements should be concentrated on specific high-defects problems. A Pareto chart should be made of the top ten problems, and projects such as...

The arrays most commonly used in the design of experiments are the orthogonal arrays. These arrays are balanced: there are an equal number of levels for each factor in the experiments. The behavior of...

The objectives of DoE are to adjust the quality characteristics (or design or process output) to the optimum performance by properly choosing the best combination of factors and levels, as shown in Fi...

Design of experiments (DoE) is a systematic method for determining the effect of factors and their possible interactions in a design or a process toward achieving a particular output of the quality ch...

Accurate estimation of new product cost and quality is becoming very important for electronic enterprises. A good understanding of how cost and quality affect major decisions in material and process s...