Robust Product and Process Designs

Course Overview
      Robustness is an essential characteristic for dependable performance. Robust products and processes perform reliably with minimum variation due to uncontrollable factors. Naturally, to assure consistent performance, the designs must be robust.
     Dollar for dollar, the return on investment is the most when design improvement efforts are directed toward the development activities. One of the effective ways to reduce variation in performance that potentially results in reduced rework and rejects downstream, is to use the standardized version the Design of Experiment (DOE) technique proposed by Dr. Genechi Taguchi. This approach allows scientific professional to easily learn and apply the DOE technique in their own development and production projects. Today, robust design technique is considered a necessary effort for building quality into products and processes of all kinds.
     In this seminar Dr. Roy will take you through the basic steps in the Taguchi approach for robust product and process designs. Participants are required to solve numerous hands-on exercise to learn how to apply the technique immediately in their own projects. The course discussions cover topics such as PLANNING, EXPERIMENT DESIGN, ROBUST DESIGN strategy and LOSS FUNCTION in details. Discussions of theories and statistical computations are kept to a minimum.
    By completing this course, the attendees are able to apply the robust design technique in their own projects to (1) Optimizing product/process designs, and (2) Solve production problems.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND?
These sessions are intended to prepare the attendees for immediate applications. Attend if you wish to learn how to apply the Taguchi technique confidently, become a specialist within your organization, and teach other the effective steps in the application. Attend alone or as a group if you are a:

Product/Process Design Engineers and Managers - Apply the skill that can produce a quantum improvement in performance of your design,

R&D Scientists - Find the recipe/formulation that produces the most desirable and robust performance.

Quality Champions, Black Belts, and Project Managers - Learn and apply the technique that makes you more effective in solving production and manufacturing problems.

Engineering Consultants - Secure the application knowledge you need to facilitate design optimization and problem solving teams.

Engineering & Manufacturing Executives - Find out how the application methodologies perfected by experienced practitioners add more value to the technique and how you can implement it in your activities.

Educators and Trainers - Discover how to make your teaching more effective with balanced emphasis on theory, hands-on practice, and assistance of an user-friendly software.

2008 Public Seminars (21st Yearly Sessions)

Why should you consider our seminar?
Attendees to this session learn hands-on, how to apply the Taguchi experimental technique. 80% of class discussions deal with applications. Attendees learn how to apply the technique immediately to :

Optimize product/process designs
Lay out efficient validation test plan
Resolve technical & production problems cost effectively
Build robust products, processes, recipes & formulations
Increase response from conventional and web based advertisements

REVIEW TESTIMONIALS

If you would like to speak with the instructor, Dr. Ranjit K. Roy, please call at 1-248-540-4827 or send an e-mail: <Support@Nutek-us.com>. Be sure to leave your complete address and phone number.

Marketing Executives - Increase response from advertisement and optimize web/landing pages.

There is no minimum educational background requirement for this seminar. However, two or more years of college education in any field of science or engineering is helpful. This course is taught at a level easily understood by the practicing engineers, scientists and managers without a background in statistics.

The class discussions are intended help you build application expertise. Our goal is to make you ready for immediate performance improvement and variation reduction applications. You will know how to plan, and lay out experiments. You would also be able to interpret and analyze results.

Engineering managers & executives, the products you manufacture are much improved when you build quality into the designs. Your project applications await leadership from a few skillful specialists. Register the potential mentors within your organization to be trained by us. Our session will make them ready for applying the technique right away. Attendees to our session also learn how to use the software that relieves them from all experimental design and analysis tasks. Worried that in absence of immediate applications, you might loose the learned skill? The reference textbook you receive would allow you to quickly brush up the methods in times of needs long after the seminar.

AREAS OF APPLICATIONS
When quality issues are addressed in the design phases of products and processes, the return on investment is much greater. Therefore, all designs should be optimized before they are released for production. For products already in production, a vast majority suffers from problems related to the lack of consistency of performance. Variation in performance, which causes higher rejects, reworks, and warranty, can be reduced by this experimental technique.

TEACHING METHODS
This 4-day seminar will prepare you for immediate application of the robust design technique to your own projects. Basic steps of experiment designs using the Taguchi orthogonal arrays will be discussed in detail. You will understand how improvement in consistency is measured in statistical terms and how experiments can be designed to improve it. The Taguchi Robust Design strategy, which deals with treatment of the uncontrollable factors and how to make the performance insensitive to the influence of the uncontrollable factors by controlling those factors that can be controlled, will be covered in details. Practical application steps, including brainstorming, team approach, and consensus decisions, are demonstrated through example project applications. Discussions of theory and mathematical treatments are kept to a minimum. Concepts covered in class lectures are practiced and tested using numerous class exercises. A large number of review questions in the reference handout provides opportunities to test what is learned in the class. The participants are encouraged to attend as a team and bring their own projects to the class.

Workshop: Attendees learn hands-on, how to accomplish design and analysis tasks using Qualitek-4 computer software. All attendees are requested to bring their own laptop computer for the last two days of the class.

Discussion Topics

Day 1

Introduction - Robust design

Overview of the Taguchi concepts of quality engineering

New philosophy and Definition of - Quality Loss to the society from poor quality

Standardized technique - Measuring cost of quality by Loss Function

Review basic concepts in experimental design

Types of factors and levels Common experiment designs

Orthogonal array vs. one-factor-at-a-time experiments

Project objective and Overall Evaluation Criteria

Need for combining multiple evaluation criteria into a single index

Day 2

Experiments designed using orthogonal arrays

Main effect study for influence of factors

ANOVA for relative influence of factors

Performance at optimum condition

Confidence level and interval (C.I.)

Transformation of S/N data

Brainstorming for experimental design

Experiments to study interaction

Trade off between factors and interactions
Test for presence of interactions
Test for relative influence of interaction

Day 3

Experiments with mixed level factors

Upgrading 2-level columns into a 4-level array

Downgrading (dummy treatment) columns

15 different experiments using an L-8 array

Combination Design (special design tool)

Robust Design Strategy -New attitude toward uncontrollable factors

Outer array for robust design

An overview of Systems with Dynamic Response

Analysis of Results

- Two Step Optimization strategy

TEAM - the new disciplines in the workplace

Order of discussions in the planning session

Participants and facilitation of planning

Computation of cost/ LOSS FUNCTION

Reference and Application assistance

Project application guidelines

Design and analysis using computer software

Day 4

Group reviews and exercise

Computer Software (Qualitek-4)

Class project & presentation by the groups

Class Evaluation and Adjournment

"This seminar will help us apply the technique to increase response from advertisement. I liked the small size of the class which helped me keep focus on the subject and engage in interaction with the instructor." - Randy Ristow, Director of Marketing, Allstate Insurance, Northbrook, IL. "Great program! Instructor was very thorough and used down-to-earth examples to explain critical concepts." - Jim Snow, Calsonic Kansei North America, Shelbyville, TN.		"As a Six Sigma Black Belt and consultant of quality topics, I was impressed by the appropriate emphasis on theory and application. Showing how to apply were addressed in details." - Naveen Iyengar, Six Sigma Alchemy (P) Ltd., Mumbai, India. "I�m very glad I participated in this class. I�m surprised why my company has not been using this technique" - Melinda Dennis, Six SIgma Black Belt, Recticel Interiors of North America, Clarkston, MI.
"Dr. Roy has a good way of explaining difficult materials clearly with simple examples and analogies." - Stephen Christanto, Sara Lee, Saint Luis, MO. "This would be a great discipline to structure our experimental studies related to vinyl siding fabrication line." - Tom Gates, Certainteed Corp. Jackson, MI. "My application is in product testing and validations. This session gave me the ability to confidently dispel some of the misunderstandings and most economically layout my product performance & durability tests." - John Wajenski, Sr. engineer, Lockheed Martin, Owego, NY. "DOE is expected to be an excellent technique for controlling variables in wood drying process. This seminar covered the background necessary for proceeding with the applications." - Dr. David Barrett, Professor of Wood Science, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. "By completing this seminar, I feel self-confident to use DOE in real environment such as manufacturing, design, and development." - Tadej Sircelj, Grosuplje, Slovenia "This has been an excellent experience for me. Use of the software to take care of all design situations and calculations of results, is most helpful" - Quality Manager, Pretium Packaging LLC. Muscatine, IA..		"Instructor is very knowledgeable in the subject and was able to relate to practical uses as well as theoretical bases for the analysis" - Vince Chacon, NASA Dryden Flight Research, Edward, CA. "I have an immediate need to apply the technique to my projects, and this seminar helped me learn how to apply right it away." - Amir Jiwani, Application Engineer, Industrial Tools Inc., Oxnard, CA. "Dr. Roy is an excellent instructor and can explain difficult concepts in an understandable manner. I feel I learned a great deal." - Rick Bauer, Cardinal FG, Menomonie, WI. "The program is very informative and the instructor provided good examples to help us understand ideas by explaining it different ways." - Scott Oldani, Belleville Shoe Manufacturing Co. Belleville, IL. "The structured discussions in experiment planning will be most helpful to my activities. Also the ability to translate improvement into dollars using the Loss Function is something very attractive." - Barbara Schiller, Eagle Ottawa, Rochester Hills, MI. "The instructor is very knowledgeable and makes use of simpler examples to clarify finer concepts of the technique. I hope to use the technique for trouble shooting and problem investigation. " - Solvey Advance Polymers, Apharetta, GA. "The instructor maintained an excellent and understandable pace of instruction throughout the course." - Quality Engineer, Valeo Climate Control, Auburn Hills, MI..

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Workshop and Class Exercises (Participants work in teams and learn from each other. )

Course Instructor:

(Testimonial from ASQ-LA on Training Skills)
This seminar is led by Ranjit K. Roy, Ph.D., P.E., PMP, President of Nutek, Inc. Dr. Roy specializes in the Taguchi approach to quality improvement. He is also the author of two leading textbooks on Taguchi application, and Qualitek-4 software used in the seminar. Dr. Roy has achieved international recognition as a consultant and trainer for his down-to-earth teaching style of the Taguchi experimental design technique, project management, and several other quality engineering topics. He began his career as senior design engineer with Burroughs Corporation following completion of graduate studies in engineering at the University of Missouri-Rolla in 1972. He then worked for General Motors Corp. (1976-1987) assuming various engineering responsibilities with his last position as that of reliability manager. Dr. Roy is a fellow of the American Society of Quality.

COST & WHAT YOU WILL RECEIVE
The cost for this 4-day seminar/workshop is $2,750/attendee.
Register early and save $200: Cost of registration is $2,550 when you complete registration process 6 weeks in advance and pay by your company check or purchase order. Receive 15% discount for registering THREE or more attendees from the same organization.

As an attendee you will receive:

Our seminar handout materials (over 250 pages, MC010424 )

Single user copy of our Qualitek-4 ($1,996 value)

Design of Experiments Using the Taguchi Approach: 16 Steps to Product and Process Improvement by Ranjit Roy text (text book, list price $130).

Certificate of completion (2.4 CEU)

Lunch (all four days of the session)

Cancellation policy: 85% refund until THREE weeks of start of the seminar, or apply entire amount toward the next session.

WHAT YOU WILL NEED TO BRING TO THE CLASS

One scientific calculator

A laptop computer (for last two days only)
One or more design optimization or problem solving ideas

REGISTRATION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
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