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Design of Experiments

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:

reduce the time to launch products on the market ;

eliminate the expensive trials and errors method ("one factor at a time") ;

identify in a faster way the main causes affecting the quality of your products and the productivity of your processes ;

gather significant information allowing a better control of your products and processes .

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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:

Selection of interactions directly into the Fishbone diagram;

Display of interaction columns and column's number in the Experimental Table ;

Run sheets printout ;

Special ANOVA Info in the ANOVA Table;

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.

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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.

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Experimental Table

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.

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ANOVA Table

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.