Chapter 1 Supplemental Text Material

S-1.1 More About Planning Experiments Coleman and Montgomery (1993) present a discussion of methodology and some guide sheets useful in the pre-experimental planning phases of designing and conducting an industrial experiment. The guide sheets are particularly appropriate for complex, highpayoff or high-consequence experiments involving (possibly) many factors or other issues that need careful consideration and (possibly) many responses. They are most likely to be useful in the earliest stages of experimentation with a process or system. Coleman and Montgomery suggest that the guide sheets work most effectively when they are filled out by a team of experimenters, including engineers and scientists with specialized process knowledge, operators and technicians, managers and (if available) individuals with specialized training and experience in designing experiments. The sheets are intended to encourage discussion and resolution of technical and logistical issues before the experiment is actually conducted.