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Industrial Applications of Response Surface Methodolgy John Borkowski Montana State University Pattaya Conference on Statistics Pattaya, Thailand Outline of the Presentation The Experimentation Process Screening Experiments 2k Factorial Experiments Optimization Experiments Mixture Experiments Final Comments The Experimentation Process Defining Experimental Objectives Researchers often discover after running an experiment that the data are insufficient to meet objectives The first and most important step in an experimental strategy is to clearly state the objectives of the experiment. The objective is a precise answer to the question “What do you want to know when the experiment is complete?” 2. Screening Experiments The experimenter wants to determine which process variables are important from a list of potentially important variables. Screening experiments are economical because a large number of factors can be studied in a small number of experimental runs. The factors that are found to be important will be used in future experiments. That is, we have screened out the important factors from the list. 2. Screening Experiments Common screening experiments are Plackett-Burman designs Two-level full-factorial (2k) designs Two-level fractional-factorial (2k-p) designs Plackett-Burman designs allow you to study as many as k-1 factors in k points where k = 12, 20, 24… (k is a multiple of 4 but not a power of 2) Example 1: Screening 6 Factors Response: Plastic Hardness Factor Levels Factors -1 +1 (X1) Tension Control Manual Automatic (X2) Machine #1 #2 (X3) Throughput (liters/min) 10 20 (X4) Mixing Single Double (X5) Temperature 200o 250o (X6) Moisture 20 % 30 % Randoml