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Design of Experiments

If you're aware of the sophisticated mathematical tool of Design of Experiments, but don't yet use it to solve complex technical problems, consider this:

Design of Experiments provides the maximum amount of technical information in the minimum amount of time.
The accuracy of results is 95%.
The often remarkable savings - in time and money, manhours and materials - are easily measurable.
DOE is the most efficient tool for both designing products right the first time, and for achieving technical breakthrough.
Tunnell Consulting teaches user-friendly, use-right-away DOE that can produce immediate results.

Building on the knowledge you already have, this seminar will show you how to solve perplexing technical problems by examining multiple variables simultaneously, not by the old-fashioned hunt-and-peck method. The result: Predictable processes and optimum performance products. In this age of rapidly changing technology, Design of Experiments can't be ignored by any manufacturing firm that wants to ensure its competitive survival.

What You Will Learn:

How to use DOE to solve current process and product problems.
How to use DOE to design new products and processes and achieve technical breakthrough.
How to select a problem for experimentation.
How to properly size an experiment.
What the many different design formats are, and how and when to use them.
How to verify experimentation results.
How to manage the experimentation environment.
How to implement changes mandated by your experiments.
How to maintain the technical gains you make.

How You Will Learn:

By solving real technical problems encountered by real companies.
By applying DOE to existing technical problems in your own company, and leaving the course with testing solutions.
By learning in a small group from one of the country's top DOE experts, Larry Meyers, who has taught hundreds of classes and thousands of people since 1974.
By developing with your skills through solving puzzles, rolling the dice, and taking part in numerous hands-on challenges.
By learning with others in your position who share your concerns about committing to this new technology.

How Your Company Will Win:

You will possess the technical ability to solve complex problems that have eluded traditional experimentation.
You will be able to respond swiftly and efficiently to process and product problems.
Your company's savings in time and money could be extraordinary.
Your higher performance products and quick problem-solving ability can lead to increased customer satisfaction and market share.
Your new DOE technology can mean powerful technical breakthroughs, major product advances, and ultimately a more successful company.

Course Outline:

Intro to Design of Experiments: what is DOE -- when should it be used -- what are its benefits -- what is the right DOE environment -- how does it compare to traditional experimentation -- what is the role of the technologist -- the classical Box-Hunter vs. Taguchi approach
Data: what are data, cause and effect, simple relationships and complexity
The Rationale for Designed Experiments: what is variation -- how to use averages -- how to characterize populations -- how to select sample size -- testing for outliers -- measurement variability -- nested design -- determining simple effects -- guarding against error
Design Formats: screening designs -- factorial designs -- fractional -- factorial designs -- curvature -- multi-level / multi-variable designs -- mixture designs -- optimization
Getting Started: keys to effective experimentation -- problem selection -- project description

Your Instructor:

Tunnell Consulting Principal Larry Meyers is a nationally recognized authority in Design of Experiments who, over the past twenty years, has taught thousands of people how to solve major technical problems. Considered by many to be the leading instructor in DOE, Larry also consults regularly with top U.S. firms and has trained under such quality leaders as Deming, Juran and Crosby. Larry is an expert at presenting the complexities of DOE in a user-friendly, use-right-away fashion.

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