THE DESIGN AND ANALYSIS OF EXPERIMENTS. By Oscar Kempthorne. New York, John Wiley and Sons, Inc., 1952. 631 pp. $8.50. This book by a teacher of statistics (as well as a consultant for \"experimenters\") is a comprehensive study of the philosophical background for the statistical design of experiment. It is necessary to have some facility with algebraic notation and manipulation to be able to use the volume intelligently. The problems are presented from the theoretical point of view, without such practical examples as would be helpful for those not acquainted with mathematics. The mathematical justification for the techniques is given. As a somewhat advanced treatment of the design and analysis of experiments, this volume will be interesting and helpful for many who approach statistics theoretically as well as practically. With emphasis on the \"why,\" and with description given broadly, the author relates the subject matter to the general theory of statistics and to the general problem of experimental inference. MARGARET J. ROBERTSON

The Design and Analysis of Experiments

According to W. Edwards Deming, American companies require nothing less than a transformation of management style and of governmental relations with industry. In Out of the Crisis, originally published in 1982, Deming offers a theory of management based on his famous 14 Points for Management. Management's failure to plan for the future, he claims, brings about loss of market, which brings about loss of jobs. Management must be judged not only by the quarterly dividend, but by innovative plans to stay in business, protect investment, ensure future dividends, and provide more jobs through improved product and service. In simple, direct language, he explains the principles of management transformation and how to apply them.

Out of the Crisis

How has Japan become a major economic power, a world leader in the automotive and electronics industries? What is the secret of their success? The consensus has been that, though the Japanese are not particularly innovative, they are exceptionally skilful at imitation, at improving products that already exist. But now two leading Japanese business experts, Ikujiro Nonaka and Hiro Takeuchi, turn this conventional wisdom on its head: Japanese firms are successful, they contend, precisely because they are innovative, because they create new knowledge and use it to produce successful products and technologies. Examining case studies drawn from such firms as Honda, Canon, Matsushita, NEC, 3M, GE, and the U.S. Marines, this book reveals how Japanese companies translate tacit to explicit knowledge and use it to produce new processes, products, and services.

The knowledge-creating company : how Japanese companies create the dynamics of innovation

* Starting from Need* Evolution of the Toyota Production System* Further Development* Genealogy of the Toyota Production System* The True Intention of the Ford System* Surviving the Low-Growth Period

Toyota production system : beyond large-scale production

House of Quality

Online education is well established in academia; however, the effectiveness of course design and student engagement remains uncertain. To deliver the highest quality online education, students should be engaged in learning exercises. Appropriately integrated technology can be used to foster student engagement, build a learner-centered environment, and make course content come alive. This article synthesizes information about well-established and relatively new technologies, such as discussion boards, chat sessions, blogs, Twitter, Skype, YouTube, and so on, to provide guidance for educators interested in integrating these tools within their online learning environment. Instructors who effectively incorporate technology as learning tools in their online courses can expect to achieve enhanced student engagement as well as higher levels of learning and more efficient classroom management.

ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENGAGED LEARNING A Meaningful Synthesis for Educators

This case study describes how one specialty construction company used the Lean Six Sigma methodology to reduce welding defects in turnaround projects.

Reducing Welding Defects in Turnaround Projects: A Lean Six Sigma Case Study

Robust design is an efficient process improvement methodology that combines experimentation with optimization to create systems that are tolerant to uncontrollable variation. Most traditional robust design models, however, consider only a single quality characteristic, yet customers judge products simultaneously on a variety of scales. Additionally, it is often the case that these quality characteristics are not of the same type. To addresses these issues, a new robust design optimization model is proposed to solve design problems involving multiple responses of several different types. In this new approach, noise factors are incorporated into the robust design model using a combined array design, and the results of the experiment are optimized using a new approach that is formulated as a nonlinear goal programming problem. The results obtained from the proposed methodology are compared with those of other robust design methods in order to examine the trade-offs between meeting the objectives associated w...

Development of a multidisciplinary–multiresponse robust design optimization model

Improving supply chain information sharing using Design for Six Sigma

The well-known quality improvement methodology, robust design, is a powerful and cost-effective technique for building quality into the design of products and processes Although several approaches to robust design have been proposed in the literature, little attention has been given to the development of a flexible robust design model Specifically, flexibility is needed in order to consider multiple quality characteristics simultaneously, just as customers do when judging products, and to capture design preferences with a reasonable degree of accuracy Physical programming, a relatively new optimization technique, is an effective tool that can be used to transform design preferences into specific weighted objectives In this paper, we extend the basic concept of physical programming to robust design by establishing the links of experimental design and response surface methodology to address designers’ preferences in a multiresponse robust design paradigm A numerical example is used to show the proposed procedure and the results obtained are validated through a sensitivity study

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Jamison V. Kovach

Papers

ONLINE TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENGAGED LEARNING A Meaningful Synthesis for Educators

Reducing Welding Defects in Turnaround Projects: A Lean Six Sigma Case Study

Development of a multidisciplinary–multiresponse robust design optimization model

Improving supply chain information sharing using Design for Six Sigma

Development of an experiment-based robust design paradigm for multiple quality characteristics using physical programming