DOE - Design of Experiments: Reliability Engineering Paper Series
DOE - Design of Experiments: Reliability Engineering Paper Series
WHY CONSULTORIA – 1001/602A, Raja Gabaglia Avenue – 30.380-403 Luxemburgo – Belo Horizonte – MG – Brasil
Phone: +55(31) 3047-7939 - Mobile: +55(31) 98878-8008 Vivo – CNPJ: 27.220.587/0001-09 IM: 1.017.819/001-X
DOE – DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS
Management Dilemmas
QUESTIONS?
o Why and How the things fail?
o How much a failure cost?
o How many failures will occur next year?
o How many spare parts will I need next year to supply my process?
o How can I more quickly solve the problem caused by a failure?
o What could I have done to avoid failures?
ANSWERS!
✓ You need to know the causes of failures!
✓ You need to know the probability of occurrence of failures!
✓ You need to know the consequences of failures!
✓ You need to know the behavior of failures!
✓ You need to know how to conduct a financial analysis of the failure!
✓ You need to know how to implement effective action plans!
DOE Principles
The design and analysis of experiments revolves around the
understanding of the effects of different variables on another variable.
In technical terms, the objective is to establish a cause-and-effect
relationship between a number of independent variables and a
dependent variable of interest. The dependent variable, in the context
of DOE, is called the response, and the independent variables are
called factors. Experiments are run at different factor values, called
levels. Each run of an experiment involves a combination of the levels
of the investigated factors, and each of the combinations is referred to
as a treatment. Repeated observations at a given treatment are called
replicates. The number of treatments of an experiment is determined
on the basis of the number of factor levels being investigated.
DOE Types
There are several types of design, each of which has an application:
DOE Stages
Designed experiments are usually carried out in five stages:
Planning
Screening
Optimization
Robustness Testing
Verification