Design of Experiments

Course Description:
Design of Experiments is specifically designed to meet the analytical needs of those
individuals working within FDA regulated industries. Instruction covers both basic and
advanced concepts for the design and analysis of experiments. Presentation of the
course material is designed for 16 hours of instruction.

Attendees:
Design of Experiments is required for all scientists, engineers and quality
professionals who actively work on all aspects of discovery, product and process
development where the goal is to characterize, optimize and improve product and
process performance.

  

Course Objectives:
Upon completion of the course the participants will be able to:

  1. Select factors and responses for experiments.
  2. Design experiments appropriate for the information of interest.
  3. Use and apply the structures of orthogonal arrays for product and process
    development and problem solving.
  4. Ensure the experimental design is efficient.
  5. Use regression techniques in order to analyze the results and make
    process/product improvements.
  6. Use JMP software to design and analyze experiments.

Prerequisites:  Engineering Statistics and Data Analysis is a recommended
prerequisite for this course.

Detailed Course Outline:

Introduction to DOE                                                   
                                                
Experimental Preparation
                         
Full Factorial Designs
                                                     
Screening Designs
Augment design   
                                                           
Custom Designs
Generating custom designs
Evaluating custom designs
Analysis of custom designs
Simulation for full distribution modeling
Strategies to minimize experimental size
Adding covariate and uncontrolled factors
Life or repeated measures experiments
Disallowed combinations (nested DOEs)
Split Plot designs
Adding dummy variables
Blocking designs
Mixtures in custom designs
Setting constraints in a DOE

Response Surface Designs        
                                              
Special Topics In DOE (optional)
Supersaturated designs
Strip plot designs