Design of Experiment (DOE)
Week 12 and 13 (Tutorial) For the tutorials sessions in weeks 12 and 13, we were introduced to a concept called Design of Experiment, or DOE for short. Background Information DOE is a statistics-based approach to designing experiments. It acts as the backbone of any product design, as well as any process or product improvement effor. It allows us to obtain knowledge of a complex, multivariable process with the fewest trials possible through optimisation of the experimental process itself. This is achieved by first determining a set of factors which are most important to the system or process, and concluding through trial and error at what levels these factors must be kept to optimise the process or system performance. Its main benefit is that it provides a quick and cost-effective method to understand and optimize any manufacturing processes. For the activity for this learning topic, we completed a case study which was designed to help us apply what we had learned about DOE. We were gi