Design of Experiments

The basic outline of the course follows a path through the development of simple experiments starting with the traditional ‘change one thing at a time’ approach and ending with a structured statistically designed experiment.
 
The course will show the merits of using designed experiments and how experiments can be structured to provide resource efficient information. This illustrates how structured experiments  can be cost effective when there are many influences on a system to study.
 
The course will make the delegates aware that structured experimentation can be used to finalise a chosen design concept, create computer simulations, identify the cause in problem solving and many other areas in the engineering environment.
 
This course provides the basic building blocks for further development of experimental design techniques including Taguchi Methods (Robustness) .

The course is available as :

  •  2 day Training course
  •  3 day Application Workshop
  •  4 day Facilitated Deployment

Training Course

 
Recommended Attendees

Product Design, Manufacturing, Quality Control, Test Engineers

 
Course Outcomes

On completion the attendee will be able to :

  •  Understand the difference between ‘Ad Hock’ and statistically designed Experiments.
  •  Understand the importance of planning experiments.
  •  Understand the basic principles of factors, levels, full factorial, interactions and balance.
  •  Be able to design and run simple experiments suitable for many engineering applications.
  •  Analyse and interpret results from statistically designed experiments including the use of Daniel Plots.
  •  Understand the basic principles behind the development of statistically designed experiments.
  •   Be able to assess the need for other experimental approaches such as Taguchi Methods (Robustness).

Application Workshop

 
The Application Workshop will focus on your own process within the company that would benefit from the application of experimental design. Due to the nature of experimentation only the planning and development of the experimental plan can be covered during an application workshop.

Facilitated Deployment

 
Facilitated Deployment covers the same elements as an application workshop, but takes the experimentation process through to completion. As aspan style="mso-spacerun: yes">  result the time required to complete the
facilitated deployment depend s entirely on the type of process selected for experimentation.
 

All training is provided conveniently at your own site for up to 10 delegates. All you need to provide is the room, your normal catering & of course the delegates.