This paper presents a soft computing strategy to determine the optimum die openings of parison programming of extrusion blow molding process. The design objective is to obtain a uniform thickness of blown parts. The proposed strategy, Fuzzy Neural-Taguchi, first establishes a back propagation network using Taguchi’s experimental array to predict the relationship between design variables and res...

in this work, the solubility of nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves, found in the north of iran, in supercritical carbon dioxide has been measured. also the effects of pressure, temperature, extraction dynamic time, and the organic co-solvent on the amount of nicotine extracted from tobacco leaves have been investigated. it should be stressed that in order to reduce significantly the number ...

This paper presents the application of Taguchi approach in investigating the performance of mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) with respect to drop rates. The performance of MANETs was influenced very much by the routing protocol designs and quantitative factors such as network size, terrain, pause-time, node speed, transmission range, traffic load, and packet rates. The NS-2 simulator was used fo...

Taguchi optimization method (L32 orthogonal array) was applied as an experimental design to determine optimum conditions for methylene blue dye removal from aqueous solutions by electrocoagulation (EC). Various electrocoagualtion parameters such as initial pH, time of electrolysis, concentration of dye, electrodes gap, applied current, solution temperature, amount of supporting electrolyte, des...

This study contains experimental investigation and analysis of different joint design and parameters affecting welding distortion observed in gtaw process. Distortion is a major problem and it has different types. The extent of distortion depends on some important parameters related to welding. The important parameters chosen for given study are welding current, thickness, gas flow rate and joi...

The challenge of current manufacturing industries is increase production rate in order to maintain their competitiveness in market.This paper investigates the effect of spindle speed and feed on material removal rate in turning operation execute on conventional lathe machine. An effort has been made to model the one response variable using Taguchi and ANOVA method. Taguchi L9 orthogonal array i...

Purpose – To solve the trade-offs between marketing and R&D domains and to minimize information loss in new product development (NPD), this study proposes an integrated design process as a new solution to the interface system between the two domains. Design/methodology/approach – House of Quality integrated with multivariate statistical analysis is used for determining important design features...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Microbial caffeine removal is a green solution for treatment of caffeinated products and agro-industrial effluents. We directed this investigation to optimizing a bio-decaffeination process with growing cultures of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes through Taguchi methodology which is a structured statistical approach that can be lowered variations in a process through Des...