Taguchi techniques

Ross, P.J. (1988), Taguchi Techniques for Quality Engineering Loss Function, Orthogonal Experiments, Parameter and Tolerance Design, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, NY. 

Ross PJ (1988) Taguchi techniques for quality engmetaing. McGraw-Hill, New York... 

The subcontract with American Supplier Institute, who will be providing support in tlie tireas of statistical expxjrirnentation (especially with Taguchi techniques) and statistical process control, has been signed. A meeting has been set at GTE Laboratories for 10-11 April to initiate activities on this effort. 

The experiments were conducted according to the orthogonal matrices. The variations of the tensile strength with different processing parameters, interactions and noise were analyzed according to the Taguchi technique. 

Taguchi H, Yokoi T, Tsukatani M, Okada Y (1995) Tetrahedron 27 7361 Vekemans J, Pollers-Wieers C, Hoornaert G (1983) J Heterocyclic Chem 20 919 Tutonda M, Vanderzande D, Hendrickx M, Hoornaert G (1990) Tetrahedron 46 5715 Deceuninck JA, Verschave P, Buffel DK, Tutonda M, Hoornaert G (1991) In Townsend LB, Stuart Tipson R (eds) Nucleic acid chemistry, improved and new synthetic procedures, methods and techniques. Wiley, New York, p 144 Buysens KJ, Vandenberghe DM, Toppet SM, Hoornaert GJ (1996) J Chem Soc Perkin Trans 1 231... 

If all the factors influencing the quality characteristic can be separated into two sets - a set product design factors and a set environmental factors - then the techniques used and promoted by Taguchi can be used to derive the desired properties. However, the situation described further in this chapter does not include a clear separation of factors into two sets the product design factors are also the noise factors, which means that the product design factors can be set to a certain mean value, but a certain random variation exists around this mean. 

Taguchi also suggested the use of Pareto s ANOVA [12]. This technique does not require any statistical assumption so a statistical analysis of the responses cannot be performed. Figure 2.7 shows a Pareto s ANOVA table. 

The earliest work on the isolation and structure elucidation was performed by Kochetkov and co-workers (154,155). Particularly noteworthy have been the continuing efforts of Ikeya and Taguchi and their co-workers on the isolation, structure elucidation and absolute configuration determination of the schizandrins and gomisins beginning in 1979 (156). Application of a wide range of techniques (UV,... 

The seminal research by Taguchi and Seiyama et al. led to the successful commercialization of tin oxide based gas sensors. The tin oxide can be sintered, forming a disk, on which electrical conductivity metal contacts can be formed. The MOS can also be formed by other techniques, such as sputtering or sol-gel techniques. 

H. (2013) Optimization of sol-gel technique for coating of metallic substrates by hydroxyapatite using the Taguchi method. Mater. Sci. Poland, 31 (3), 424—433. 

Taguchi S and Goto K (1992) Preconcentration of trace elements by filter papers. In Alfassi ZB and Wai CM, eds. Preconcentration Techniques for Trace Elements, pp. 427-444. CRC Press, Boca Raton. 

Guided by the quality plan, the computer-aided quality inspection and quality data collection receive quality data during different phases. The phases include purchased-mateiial and part-quality inspection, part-production-quality data collection, and final-assembly quality inspection. The methods and techniques used in quality inspection and data collection are discussed in special books on quality control (Taguchi et al. 1990). 

In some ways, this is the same requirement faced when developing electronic nose technology. Sensor-based electronic noses are based upon an array of non-specific gas sensors coupled with a pattern recognition technique (Gardner and Bartlett, 1999 Pearce et al, 2003). Electronic noses tend to be large, expensive instruments. For example, the Fox 4000 electronic nose (Alpha MOS, France) comprises 18 power-hungry Taguchi-like metal oxide resistive gas sensors (see Fig. 15.11). 

Renormalisation group (RG) techniques have been applied to several finitely ramified structures, so that results are available for some deterministic fractals including Sierpinski triangular lattices [40-47] (for a comprehensive discussion see Ref. [48]). For infinitely ramified structures, there is no RG result available and one has to rely on numerically evaluating SAWs on these fractals (note, however, the study of Taguchi [49] of SAWs on Sierpinski square lattices). Nonetheless, even in the former case when RG results are available, it is instructive to apply munerical schemes as mentioned in the Introduction. 

Due to the fact that the exponents for SAWs on Sierpinski square lattices depend on both (n, k) and lacunarity, it is difficult to compare numerical results from different studies with each other, as in most cases the substrates differ. Using the bond-moving-type RG method to study SAWs on nine different Sierpinski square lattices in d = 2, Taguchi [49] determined the exponent vs, reporting values between 0.798 and 0.880. For five of these substrates, Reis and Riera [55] used a series expansion technique in d = 2, quoting considerable smaller values for i, between 0.7 0.5 to 0.82 0.09. They also determined the exponents 7s and fis for SAWs on those substrates, reporting for 7s values between 1.26 0.37 and 1.38 0.07, as well as values between 2.183 and 2.619 for /is. Apart from that, the MG study in Ref. [56] gives the estimate i s = 0.7535 in d = 2 for n,k) = 3,l). 

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