Taguchi-based robust design for the footwear outsole pelletizing machine cutter

Robust Design and Taguchi Method Application

Robust Design: An introduction to Taguchi Methods

The theoretical foundations of Taguchi Methods were laid out by Genichi Taguchi, a Japanese engineer who began working for the telecommunications company, ECL (Electrical Communications Lab, a part of NT&T), in 1950’s. After World War II, his team was involved in the design of telephone system components, and successfully produced designs that performed better than their main rivals, Bell Labs,...

Taguchi and Robust Optimization

This report is intended to facilitate dialogue between engineers and optimizers about the eeciency of Taguchi methods for robust design, especially in the context of design by computer simulation. Three approaches to robust design are described: 1. Robust optimization, i.e. specifying an objective function f and then minimizing a smoothed (robust) version of f by the methods of numerical optimi...

A Robust Design of MMIC using Taguchi Method

In this paper, we demonstrate a robust design of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuits (MMIC) using Taguchi Method. In accordance with Taguchi Method, noise factors, which are uncontrollable sources of variation, and control factors, which are available to control both the deviations and the mean-values by circuit designers were assigned to an orthogonal array. We simulated radio frequency (...

Robust Design of SAW Gas Sensors by Taguchi Dynamic Method

This paper adopts Taguchi's signal-to-noise ratio analysis to optimize the dynamic characteristics of a SAW gas sensor system whose output response is linearly related to the input signal. The goal of the present dynamic characteristics study is to increase the sensitivity of the measurement system while simultaneously reducing its variability. A time- and cost-efficient finite element analysis...