Designing Industrial Experiments

An Instructional Videotape Series Designed to Catalyze Creativity for Quality Improvement

Used at over 100 Companies, Institutes and Universities Worldwide for Training in Design of Experiments

Why should I be interested in using experimental design?

Leading companies have found ways to achieve high quality products while reducing cost, increasing productivity, and speeding up the development of new products and processes. The key to their success has been the wide use of statistical methods and, in particular, of experimental design. These videotapes explain these ideas to engineers, scientists, and managers.

Graphics, not Formulas
The authors of these tapes have many years of experience presenting ideas simply and effectively . . . they use graphics, not formulas, giving deep understanding in the shortest possible time

Six videotapes, with a total running time of 4+ hours, explore the following topics:

• Quality and the Art of Discovery
  How to apply the enormous power of scientific problem solving to every process in your organization. Simple tools are presented for identifying and solving the problems in any system, process, or product. This overview is an eloquent introduction to quality ideas for executives, managers, engineers and line workers alike.

• The Iterative Nature of Scientific Investigation
  This adaptive philosophy of experimentation is the key to never ending improvement and to effective and economical experimentation.

• Factorial Designs
  How to get more information with fewer experiments - a foundation for efficient and cost-effective investigation.

• Fractional Factorial Designs
  How to identify the vital few factors that impact quality - the efficient way to screen a large number of factors with only a few experimental runs.

• Blocking
  How to cancel the effects of uncontrollable factors during experimentation.

• Simple Plotting Methods to Analyze Results
  Graphical methods eliminate the need for complicated formulas. The plots show you which factors have important effects and help you understand what they do.

• Product Development Experiment - a Practical Demonstration
  From concept to conclusions, a fractional factorial experiment is used to investigate the effect of various design modifications on the aerodynamics of a paper helicopter. This is a device you can also use for hands-on class demonstrations.

• Optimization and Sequential Assembly of Designs
  How to visualize geometrically the problem of optimization using response surface methods, and to design experiments step by step, each step building on what has been learned before. In this way, the number of experiments needed to solve the problem is minimized.

• Development of Robust Products
  How to design products that perform well under a wide range of environmental conditions, and that are insensitive to manufacturing variation.

Our Approach to Knowledge Transfer

• Teaching by Example
  Our teaching is by example, spiced from time to time with humor. In one sequence, some of the excitement of discovery is imparted as we see a statistically planned experiment actually being run. We move from the inception of the idea, through the experiment itself, to its interesting conclusions.

• Statistical Analysis
  Easily understood graphical techniques and simple calculations replace complicated methods such as the analysis of variance.

• Choosing the Right Design
  A ready-reference book of most often used experimental designs is included with the tapes.

• Simplification of Taguchi's Ideas
  A clear explanation of Taguchi's important key concepts is presented, including the design of products, which are insensitive both to manufacturing variation and to the varied environmental conditions in which customers expect products to perform. Complicated procedures are eliminated and, where appropriate, are replaced by simpler and more effective methods.

• Experimental Philosophy
  Statistical methods are a means to catalyze the experimenter's natural creativity to enable him to obtain experimental results more effectively and quickly.

Optional Bundled Software Availability

The SCA Quality Improvement Package (QPI)
Designed to simplify the use of design of experiments in practical product design and manufacturing. This software product is available for MS Windows and various Unix platforms. It supports the concepts presented in the Designing Industrial Experiments videotape series. It is also keyed to the books, Statistics for Experimenters by Box, Hunter, and Hunter and Empirical Model Building and Response Surfaces by Box and Draper.

Industrial Price: Add $900.00 (US) to Sub-Total
Academic Price: Add $350.00 (US) to Sub-Total

In addition to the videotapes, three complete sets of notes containing all visuals and a book of statistical designs are provided. Both may be used to follow along with the tapes, and for further study.

Also provided with the tapes is a copy of the best-selling book Statistics for Experimenters by Box, Hunter and Hunter, published by John Wiley and Sons. This is a valuable source of additional examples and background reading.

The Designing Industrial Experiments videotape series was developed by George E.P. Box, Søren Bisgaard, and Conrad Fung. It is based on a short course offered at the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement and Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. You may contact the CQPI for more information on their course offerings. They also offer technical papers covering various managerial and technical issues related to quality improvement.

What's Included?

• Six high quality tapes (available in VHS-NTSC and VHS-PAL formats)
• Optional: companion SCA Quality Improvement Package (QPI) for Windows
• 3 Sets of Notes Containing Copies of All Visuals Shown in the Tapes
• A copy of A Practical Aid to Experimenters by Soren Bisgaard which makes it easy to choose the right design
• Optional: Companion SCA Quality Improvement Package (QPI) for Windows
• A copy of the best-selling book Statistics for Experimenters by Box, H unter & Hunter
• Warranty on Merchandise
  

• Domestic Orders are Shipped via UPS Second Day Air
• International Orders are Shipped via U.S. Express Mail

The Sources
George Box, Søren Bisgaard, and Conrad Fung are internationally known for their careful analysis of quality techniques of many different kinds from around the world. They are also well known for their own extensive original work in industrial experimental design and quality improvement techniques. Drawing on this wide fund of knowledge, these tapes present a synthesis of the very best ideas, whether originating in Japan, Great Britain, the United States, or elsewhere; and whether associated with such names as Deming, Shewhart, Ishikawa, Box, Juran, Daniel, Joiner, Fisher, Gosset, Hunter, Golomski, Tippett, or Taguchi.

Instructors
George Box, a world famous statistician with extensive industrial and research experience, is the originator of many widely used methods for quality improvement, and is a Shewhart medallist and the 1989 recipient of the Deming Medal. He has coauthored many books, including The Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments; Time Series Analysis-Forecasting and Control; Evolutionary Operation; Statistics for Experimenters; and Empirical Model Building and Response Surfaces. For many years he was a practicing statistician with Imperial Chemical Industries, and Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Society for Quality Control, and has been the recipient of many awards, medals and honors.

Søren Bisgaard, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement, is a faculty member of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is an experienced industrial consultant in quality improvement and operations research. He holds two engineering degrees in industrial and manufacturing engineering, and M.S. and Ph.D degrees in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a recipient of both the Shewell and Brumbaugh Awards from the American Society for Quality Control for excellence in publication.

Conrad Fung is an industrial consultant in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. He has been a practicing statistician at the DuPont Company, where he was a consultant to quality control initiatives at manufacturing plants in Europe and the United States, and a faculty member of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received M.S. and Ph.D degrees in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served as Chair of the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality Control.

Conrad Fung is an industrial consultant in private practice in Madison, Wisconsin. He has been a practicing statistician at the DuPont Company, where he was a consultant to quality control initiatives at manufacturing plants in Europe and the United States, and a faculty member of the Department of Industrial Engineering at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He received M.S. and Ph.D degrees in statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has served as Chair of the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality Control.

Computing Platforms Mainframe and Workstation Availability

• IBM/MVS, IBM/CMS
• VAX, AlphaVax, AlphaDec, VaxStation and DECstation (VMS, OpenVMS, OSF1, ULTRIX)
SUN, HP, APOLLO, RS/6000, CONVEX, SEQUENT, Silicon Graphics, and other UNIX workstations
• PC and PC Network Availability
Windows 3.x
• Windows 95/98/NT
• SCO Unix
• PC LANs running Novell Netware and Microsoft Windows NT Server

Format:  VHS or PAL Video
Item #:   SCA100
Price:     $1995.00 (Industrial)
Price:     $800.00 (Academic)