Due to significant environmental advantages, biocomposites have recently received increasing attention. In the present research, strength of hat-shaped coir fiber biocomposites tubes reinforced with nano powder was evaluated experimentally under 3-point bending tests. The tubes were manufactured using hand lay-up technique and based on Taguchi design of experiment. The effects of different para...

An improved immune algorithm, named the Taguchi-immune algorithm (TIA), is proposed to solve global numerical optimization problems with continuous variables based on both the features of a biological immune system and the systematic reasoning ability of the Taguchi method. In the TIA, the clonal proliferation within hypermutation for several antibody diversifications and the recombination by u...

For all industrial processes, modelling, optimisation and control are the keys to enhance productivity and ensure product quality. In the current study, the optimization of process parameters for improving the conversion of isoeugenol to vanillin by Psychrobacter sp. CSW4 was investigated by means of Taguchi approach and Box-Behnken statistical design under resting cell conditions. Taguchi desi...

A Manufacture Support System using Taguchi Methods was developed and evaluated. This system consists of a Taguchi methods part, a CAE simulation part and a management part of productivity. The Taguchi methods part was firstly used for calculating the average and the standard deviation regarding all combinations using all parameters. The CAE part was then used for shortening the total time of ev...

This paper presents an application of the Taguchi method parameter design to optimize the surface roughness, tool wear and cutting force by hard turning process. The Taguchi parameter design method is an efficient method in which response variable can be optimized, given various controls and using fewer experimental runs. Hard turning is the latest trend in all manufacturing industries and it i...

In this work, a hybrid Taguchi-Particle Swarm Optimization (TPSO) is proposed to solve global numerical optimization problems with continuous and discrete variables. This hybrid algorithm combines the well-known Particle Swarm Optimization Algorithm with the established Taguchi method, which has been an important tool for robust design. This paper presents the improvements obtained despite the ...

The challenge of current manufacturing industries is increase production rate in order to maintain their competitiveness in market.This paper investigates the effect of spindle speed and feed on material removal rate in turning operation execute on conventional lathe machine. An effort has been made to model the one response variable using Taguchi and ANOVA method. Taguchi L9 orthogonal array i...

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 et al. (Reports, 20 July 2007, p. 369) reported that mice heterozygous for a null mutation in insulin receptor substrate-2 (Irs2) display a 17% increase in median life span. However, using the same mouse model, we find no evidence for life-span extension and suggest that the findings of Taguchi et al. were due to atypical life-span profiles in their study animals.

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 (...