BACKGROUND Enzymatic hydrolysis of lactose is one of the most important biotechnological processes in the food industry, which is accomplished by enzyme β-galactosidase (β-gal, β-D-galactoside galactohydrolase, EC 3.2.1.23), trivial called lactase. Orthogonal arrays design is an appropriate option for the optimization of biotechnological processes for the production of microbial enzymes. METH...

Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is considered to be the most significant development in metal joining technologies to join high strength aerospace aluminum alloys. In order to improve the reliability and quality of the products manufactured by FSW process input process parameters such as tool rotational speed, welding speed and axial force are to be optimized. This study deals with the optimization...

Taguchi method was known as an off-line quality control methodology to be used in many industries. Until now, most applications only focus on optimizing a single-response in a static system. Furthermore, due to the increasing complexity of the product design, more than one quality characteristic must be considered simultaneously to improve the production quality. Therefore, there are several st...

The biosorption performance of raw cone shell of Calabrian pine for C.I. Basic Red 46 as a model azo dye from aqueous system was optimized using Taguchi experimental design methodology. L9 (3(3)) orthogonal array was used to optimize the dye biosorption by the pine cone shell. The selected factors and their levels were biosorbent particle size, dye concentration, and contact time. The predicted...

This research outlines the Taguchi optimization methodology, which is applied to optimize cutting parameters in drilling of glass fiber reinforced composite (GFRC) material. Analysis of variance (ANOVA) is used to study the effect of process parameters on machining process. This procedure eliminates the need for repeated experiments, time and conserves the material by the conventional procedure...

This goal of this study was to find the optimal processing parameters for PET/TiO2 UV-cut fiber in order to work out its maximal strength. UV-cut means PET/TiO2 fiber attenuates the transmission of UV-radiation. The hybrid Taguchi and fuzzy approach was applied to resolve the problem as regards optimization of multiple quality characteristics, and further discover the optimal conditions for PET...

Since plastic products are with the features as light, anticorrosive and low cost etc., that are generally used in several of tools or components. Consequently, the requirements on the quality and effectiveness in production are increasingly serious. However, there are many factors affecting the yield rate of injection products such as material characteristic, mold design, and manufacturing par...

Process capability indices provide numerical measures on whether a process conforms to the defined manufacturing capability prerequisite. These have been successfully applied by companies to compete with and to lead high-profit markets by evaluating the quality and productivity performance. The loss-based process capability index Cpm, sometimes called the Taguchi index, was proposed to measure ...