Taguchi Designs

The following is an excerpt on DOE designed experiment techniques from Six Sigma Demystified (2011, McGraw-Hill) by Paul Keller.

Taguchi designs are fractional factorial designs with the order of the factors or rows revised from the standard order. In this way, Taguchi did not develop any new designs. Some practitioners feel that his design construction is more complicated, obscuring the interactions or factor effects.

Instead, Taguchi’s contributions to design were in his recommendations for screening designs to include the effect of variance. Taguchi emphasized the use of replicates, including subsidiary (or noise) factors, to estimate variance.

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