An orthogonal arrays approach to robust parameter designs methodology

P. Angelopoulos, K. Drosou and C. Koukouvinos

Journal of Applied Statistics, 2012, vol. 40, issue 2, 429-437

Abstract: Robust parameter design methodology was originally introduced by Taguchi [14] as an engineering methodology for quality improvement of products and processes. A robust design of a system is one in which two different types of factors are varied; control factors and noise factors. Control factors are variables with levels that are adjustable, whereas noise factors are variables with levels that are hard or impossible to control during normal conditions, such as environmental conditions and raw-material properties. Robust parameter design aims at the reduction of process variation by properly selecting the levels of control factors so that the process becomes insensitive to changes in noise factors. Taguchi [1415] proposed the use of crossed arrays (inner--outer arrays) for robust parameter design. A crossed array is the cross-product of an orthogonal array (OA) involving control factors (inner array) and an OA involving noise factors (outer array). Objecting to the run size and the flexibility of crossed arrays, several authors combined control and noise factors in a single design matrix, which is called a combined array, instead of crossed arrays. In this framework, we present the use of OAs in Taguchi's methodology as a useful tool for designing robust parameter designs with economical run size.

Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.1080/02664763.2012.745838

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