Understanding and Applying DOE: Design of Experiments
In any business environment, profit or cost savings is unreachable until you’re able to understand and influence the underlying variables that drive results. If there was only one variable or even two impacting your result, management would be easy; unfortunately, in the real world, there are often many variables, all interacting to create uncertain results.
Design of Experiments (DOE), a scientific analytical technique originally developed at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and refined throughout industry and academia over the past three decades, can be used to help understand how variables interact and how to manage and control them for the desired results you’re looking for. Whether the variables are new product features, staffing levels in a call center or hospital, equipment used to manufacture components, or ingredients used to improve the taste and texture of your favorite candy bar, DOE can help increase the cost savings of an existing process improvement and your speed to market for new products or services, while decreasing the investment in and anxiety of your planned experiments.
You’ll learn to:
- Cut through the theoretical and burdensome statistics that prevent many people from applying DOE within their organization
- Speed up the results from experimentation
- Develop an experimental design plan, and build a predictive model from the experiment’s results
- Understand experimental analysis, including main and interactive effects, experimental error and residual analysis
- Choose the appropriate type of experimental design (Tukey quick tests, factorial and fractional designs)
- Perform scientific analysis of multi-variants, measurement system, graphical, means and variance
Who should attend:
- Product/process engineers or managers
- Quality managers
- Operations managers
- Business systems analysts
- R&D personnel
- Six Sigma practitioners
The University of Wisconsin–Madison, as a member of the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA), authorizes this course for 1.4 Continuing Education Units (CEUs) or 14 hours, as well as 14 PDUs.
jcorkery@exed.wisc.edu