Training Courses

Design of Experiment

COURSE OVERVIEW

Description

Design of Experiments (DOE) is a proven methodology for individuals involved in designing, conducting and analyzing experiments. Over the past decade, the use of DOE has influenced various industries, facilitating improvements in processes and products. It plays a crucial role in development and optimization, aiming to enhance quality and reliability while concurrently contributing to cost reductions and time savings.

DOE is a structured approach for collecting data and making discoveries. It serves as a tool that applies statistical analysis to experimentation, making it valuable for proactive decision-making support. Today, DOE is widely utilised across various fields in science and engineering. Its applications have expanded to include sectors such as business, financial services, government operations and e-commerce. Despite unanimous agreement within industries about the benefits of DOE, its adoption is hindered, with only one in four companies using it due to a lack of knowledge and education in the methodology.

Course Focus:

  1. Key emphasis throughout the course is on applications in the workplace
  2. Participants will complete a project based around their own work environment to demonstrate the application of DOE.

 

Suitable For:

  1. Engineers and managers in process control and product innovation
  2. Entrepreneurs and business managers who are keen to explore breakthroughs in product
  3. Science, technology and engineering graduates and academics

Keywords:

Microsoft Excel, PyCharm, Statistics, Python Programming, Machine Learning Algorithms

DURATION
3 Days
DATE

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TIME

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VENUE

Johor Bahru
Kuala Lumpur
Penang

TRAINING OUTLINE

Learning Outcome:

At the end of this workshop, participants are expected to be able to:

  1. Gear their organisation towards Industry 4.0
  2. Plan, design and conduct useful experiments efficiently and effectively
  3. Use data analysis to obtain valid objective deductions.
  4. Build empirical models with machine learning algorithms.
  5. Apply the 7-Step DOE methodology in their workplace

Methodology:

Workshop, hands on, interactive learning, case studies and real-life scenarios, expert demonstrations, brainstorming

Format:

In-house / Public Training / Online

PROPOSED ITINERARY

Day 1

Industry 4.0

Introduction to DOE

DOE Fundamentals

  • 7-step DOE methodology
  • Input variables
  • Response variables
  • Nuisance variables
  • Extraneous variables

Basic DOE Principles

  • Randomisation
  • Replication
  • Blocking
  • Factorial 

Statistics For DOE

  • Variance
  • Sum of squares
  • Covariance
  • Linear regression
  • Correlation coefficient

Problem Statement

  • Identify opportunities
  • Select project team
  • Formulate problem statement
  • Gather background information

Response Variable Selection

  • Select response variable
  • Decide measurement method
  • State purpose and objectives
  • Project management plan
  • Project kickoff meeting
Day 2

Design Factors Selection

  • Identify factors
  • Classify factors
  • Select design factors and measurement method
  • State current knowledge of design factors effects
  • Decide design factors ranges

Experiment Design – Part I

  • Characterise factors
  • Decide design factors levels
  • Determine experiment design details

Experiment Design – Part II

  • Experiment design – randomised singe factor, randomise complete block, full factorial, fractional factorial, response surface method, Taguchi method
  • Decide empirical model and hypotheses
  • Documentation

Experiment Design – Part III

  • Experiment design – number of experiment runs, experiment run order
  • Decide empirical model and hypotheses
  • Documentation
  • Software packages

Conduct Experiment

  • Planning and logistics
  • Conduct trial runs
  • Perform experiment and data collection
Day 3

Data Analysis – Part I

  • Data cleaning and plotting
    • scatter plot
    • box plot
    • dot diagram
    • normal probability plot
  • Date analysis – ANOVA, data validation, randomised single factor analysis

Data Analysis – Part II

  • Randomised complete block analysis
  • Factorial analysis
  • Model adequacy
  • Fit empirical model
  • Lack of fit test

Data Analysis – Part III

  • Interpret results
  • Follow-up experimentation

Conclusions, Recommendations & Implementation

  • Draw conclusions
  • Make recommendations
  • Implementation
  • DOE project closure
  • Improvement evaluation

ABOUT TRAINERS

Dr Goh Eng Yew

Dr Goh obtained his PhD from Imperial College (London) in the field of computational fluid dynamics. He lectured at Nanyang Technological University (1992-1996) and subsequently joined the industry as chief architect to develop web-based enterprise resource planning system (1999-2012). Since 2012, he is lecturing for University Of Newcastle (Singapore campus) and his main areas of research and interests are design of experiments and machine learning. Dr Goh has developed a 7-step design of experiments methodology incorporating machine learning algorithms.

Fields of Expertise
– Design of experiments
– Machine learning
– Web-based technology
– Software programming

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