In this research, the main parameters of the multivariate CUSUM control chart (the reference value k , the control limit H , the sample size n , and the sampling interval h ) are determined by minimizing the Lorenzen-Vance cost function (Lorenzen TJ, Vance LC. The economic design of control charts: A unified approach. Technometrics 28: 3-10, 1986 [1],) in which the external costs of employing t...

1. In poultry investigations, the main interest is often to study the effects of many factors simultaneously. Two or three level factorial designs are the most commonly used for this type of investigation. However, it is often too costly to perform when number of factors increase. So a fractional factorial design, which is a subset or a fraction of a full factorial design, is an alternative. Th...

in the present paper, the study has been made to optimize the process parameters during machining of Inconnel-600 by wire electrical discharge machining (WEDM) using response surface methodology (RSM). Four input process parameters of WEDM (namely Peak Current (IP), Pulse-On time (TON), Pulse-Off time (TOFF) and Wire Feed rate (WF)) were chosen as variables to study the process performance in t...

Robustness is a key strategy for achieving high quality low cost products and processes. Three different approaches to robust design are commonly used: the inner/outer array approach advocated by Taguchi, the dual response approach using response surfaces and the tolerance analysis approach which also uses response surfaces. Each of these approaches will be explained. The three approaches will ...

With the aim to improve the mass rearing feasibility of tobacco budworm, Helicoverpa armigera Hübner (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), design of experimental methodology using Taguchi orthogonal array was applied. To do so, the effect of 16 ingredients of an artificial diet including bean, wheat germ powder, Nipagin, ascorbic acid, formaldehyde, oil, agar, distilled water, ascorbate, yeast, chloramphen...

Simulation and prediction of CO2 laser cutting of Perspex glass has been done by feed forward back propagation Artificial Neural Network (ANN). Experimental data of Taguchi orthogonal array L9 was used to train the ANN model. The simulation results were evaluated and verified with the experiment. In some cases, the prediction errors of Taguchi ANN model was larger than 10% even with Levenberg M...