Statistical Design of Experiments with Engineering Applications

In today's high-technology world, with flourishing e-business and intense competition at a global level, the search for the competitive advantage has become a crucial task of corporate executives. Quality, formerly considered a secondary expense, is now universally recognized as a necessary tool. Although many statistical methods are available for determining quality, there has been no guide to easy learning and implementation until now. Filling that gap, Statistical Design of Experiments with Engineering Applications, provides a ready made, quick and easy-to-learn approach for applying design of experiments techniques to problems. The book uses quality as the main theme to explain various design of experiments concepts.The authors examine the entire product lifecycle and the tools and techniques necessary to measure quality at each stage. They explain topics such as optimization, Taguchi's method, variance reduction, and graphical applications based on statistical techniques. Wherever applicable the book supplies practical rules of thumb, step-wise procedures that allow you to grasp concepts quickly and apply them appropriately, and examples that demonstrate how to apply techniques. Emphasizing the importance of quality to products and services, the authors include concepts from the field of Quality Engineering. Written with an emphasis on application and not on bogging you down with the theoretical underpinnings, the book enables you to solve 80% of design problems without worrying about the derivation of mathematical formulas.

"provides easy to understand and fast-learning approaches to applying experimental design methods to solving variety of problems that occur in practice. Statistical design principles and complicated concepts are explained very nicely (with minimal mathematical details) using simple examples drawn from engineering and related fields. Inclusion of several chapters on location and dispersion optimization techniques makes this book more useful than other traditional textbooks on experimental design. The authors emphasize more on design techniques than on estimation and analyses which is what gives new dimension. In all, this book is a welcome addition and one that will prove highly successful." -Prof. Ibrahim A. Ahmad, Dept. of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Central Florida, Orlando, USA

Rekab, Kamel; Shaikh, Muzaffar