Robust Design and Tolerance Analysis*, 2 days, (1.6 CEU's)

The Best of Both Worlds
Use DOE to create products and processes robust to varying conditions, and tolerance analysis to assure your specifications are met. This workshop is a must for Design for Six Sigma (DFSS). Anyone with prior DOE experience and the desire to create an ideal product or process should attend.

In just two days you will discover how to take your DOE knowledge to the next level, making improved design decisions that lead to defect-free products. Apply the techniques you learn to minimize expensive design rework and accelerate product scale-up and commercialization.

Practice building and running designed experiments that pinpoint settings which are robust to sources of noise and create a viable transfer function. Then use that transfer function to determine the best tolerances for your product design. Through “knowledgeable design” discover which product or process design parameters are critical to performance. Achieve optimum values with minimal variation.

Together, DOE and tolerance analysis lead to ideal products and processes:
1. DOE helps to identify factor levels that maximize the performance of a response and minimize the effect of uncontrolled variables. It also identifies factors that have no significant effect on performance, allowing tolerances to be relaxed—which leads to reduced costs.
2. Tolerance analysis pinpoints the factors that are critical to process capability. It also reveals the impact of reducing the variation transmitted from factors to responses.

Concepts You’ll Master
° How to apply robust design in the Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) setting
° Which design of experiment is best for verification studies
° Putting propagation of error (POE) to use for optimizing factor levels and minimizing sensitivity to noise
° Comparing the pros and cons of worst-case tolerancing, statistical tolerancing, and process tolerancing
° Improving the process capability indexes (Cpk’s) for your process via tolerance analysis

Computer-Intensive Class—Free Trials Provided of:
° Design-Expert® software for DOE
° VarTran® software for tolerance analysis by Taylor Enterprises, Inc.

*Prerequisite: Advanced DOE Proficiency
You need not be a statistician, but you must have a working knowledge of factorial design and response surface methods. (If you are working for a company with a Six Sigma program, you should be at the black-belt level of proficiency in statistics). We recommend you take our Experiment Design Made Easy and Response Surface Methods for Process Optimization workshops as prerequisites.

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Three Ways To Register
Web: www.statease.com/prodwork.html
Phone: Elicia at 612.746.2038
E-mail: workshops@statease.com