Everyday your company faces local and international
competition. To stay on top, you must increase the added value of your
products and reduce your design and manufacturing costs. The design
of experiments is a fast and efficient tool to reach those goals.
Optimum Design of Experiments is based on the Taguchi
method, a well-known design of experiments technique. It allows you to
solve rapidly design problems or improve the efficiency of processes.
With this software, you will be able to:
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reduce the time to launch products
on the market ; |
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eliminate the expensive trials
and errors method ("one factor at a time") ; |
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identify in a faster way the main
causes affecting the quality of your products and the productivity
of your processes ; |
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gather significant information
allowing a better control of your products and processes . |
Optimum Design of Experiments is
outstandingly simple to use. Engineers and technicians who design and
test products, and operators who work on processes, need quick and efficient
solutions to their problems.
They usually don't have much time
to learn complex statistical concepts.
To easily solve complex problems
is what Optimum does best.
For example, the creation of your
experimental design is greatly facilitated through the construction of
a Fishbone Diagram which helps you to define the basic elements of a model
such as factors, interactions and performance indices to be optimized.
Once the Fishbone Diagram is completed, Optimum automatically
creates the experimental design which reduces the number of tests and
the experimental costs.
Graphical and statistical tools
of Optimum decrease the analysis effort of your experimental results.
Analysis of variance (ANOVA) and effects graphs present and allow to identify
factors and interactions which most influence the performance indices.
People who are used to design of experiments will be very
satisfied with our new release of Optimum Design of Experiments. A great
deal of commands and options are available:
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Selection of interactions directly into
the Fishbone diagram; |
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Display of interaction columns and column's
number in the Experimental Table ; |
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Run sheets printout ; |
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Special ANOVA Info in the ANOVA Table; |
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Display of the interval of confidence,
the minimum and the maxi-mum range values of each operational level,
and the experimental mean in the effects graphs. |
Characteristics
Only four steps
To optimize your products and processes, you just
have to go through four steps by using the following icons.
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Fishbone Diagram |
Fishbone Diagram
Use a Fishbone Diagram to define
the performance indices of your product or process that you want to maximize
or minimize. Complete it with factors, operational levels and interactions.
Building an experimental plan is a heavy burden for
you? Let Optimum Design of Experiments take charge. You will get well
structured experimen-tal plans minimizing the number of experiments to
be conducted.
The software computes the Analysis of variance (ANOVA).
The ANOVA results help you identify major influential factors and interactions
relative to various performance indices. Further-more, the software suggests
optimal settings of these factors and shows the effects of the interactions
through the Effects Graph.
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Confirmation Experiment |
Use the Confirmation Experiment to validate your
model. Optimum uses a statistical test to check if the results obtained
during the experimentation are reproducible according to the results of
the Confimation Experiment.
Many reasons explain why
Optimum Design of Experiments
has been adopted by well-known companies
Optimum is user friendly
Graphic representations
of the ANOVA results allow a better understanding for the user ;
From now on, the user can also print the ANOVA graphics, the
factors and interactions effects graphs ;
Ribbon and History bar insure an easy passage from one module
to another.
Optimum works very well with word processors and
spreadsheets
Copy/Cut/Paste commands allow easy data and graphs
transfer from Optimum to software of your choice.
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