– Deburring is the finishing technique that is very essential for the manufacturing of precise components. Deburring process with greater efficiency and full automation is an extremely difficult task. Thermal deburring offers a potential solution to such problems. For successful utilization of thermal deburring, more intensive research including parameters analysis of the process is still requi...

Along with the widespread use of Taguchi methods in product design, deenition of the loss function has been integrated with numerous models which require quality cost estimation. In this paper, the economic-statistical design of a variable sampling X-bar control chart is extended using the Taguchi loss function to improve chart eeectiveness from a quality cost point of view. The eeectiveness of...

This report is intended to facilitate dialogue between engineers and optimizers about the eeciency of Taguchi methods for robust design, especially in the context of design by computer simulation. Three approaches to robust design are described: 1. Robust optimization, i.e. specifying an objective function f and then minimizing a smoothed (robust) version of f by the methods of numerical optimi...

The challenge of recent machining industries is reduce lead time and increase production rate in order to maintain their competitiveness. This paper investigates the machinability of mild steel in turning process perform on conventional lathe machine. Twoparameters like tool rake angle and feed are varied to investigate their effect on material removal rate. An attempt has been made to model th...

The multiobjective design of digital filters using the powerful Taguchi optimization technique is considered in this paper. This relatively new optimization tool has been recently introduced to the field of engineering and is based on orthogonal arrays. It is characterized by its robustness, immunity to local optima trapping, relative fast convergence and ease of implementation. The objectives ...

This paper presents the solution of economic power dispatch (EPD) through the application of genetic algorithm (GA) and the taguchi method. The economic power dispatch is a non-linear optimisation problem with several constraints. The objective of the proposed genetic algorithm combined taguchi method is to choose the most efficient combination of Pc (crossover probability), Pm (mutation probab...

Design of experiments (DOE) methods are very commonly used for process validation. In this study, we employed the Taguchi approach in order to develop an optimal process for the maximization of oscillatory shear stress environments (OSS). OSS has been associated with increase in cellular activity and has been linked to healthy gene expression and tissue formation. Therefore, OSS may be a key fa...

By the grey-based Taguchi methods, this study attempts to analyze the process parameters pertinent to the multiple performance characteristics of linear motion guides and obtain the multiple performance characteristics of the noise level, push force value and horizontal combination precision of the linear motion guide with multiple qualities. Optimal process parameters are determined by using t...

Dolph-Chebychev arrays are known to exhibit the best compromise between sidelobe level and directivity. However, they place a constraint on the null locations. Any attempt to impose nulls or get them deeper will impact the directivity/sidelobe level trade-off. In this work, null placement in Dolph-Chebychev arrays through element position perturbation is carried out based on Taguchi method whil...

Support Vector Machines (SVM) is a powerful classification technique in data mining and has been successfully applied to many real-world applications. Parameter selection of SVM will affect classification performance much during training process. However, parameter selection of SVM is usually identified by experience or grid search (GS). In this study, we use Taguchi method to make optimal appr...