DOE Manufacturing Industry Application

Manufacturing

 

You can improve your manufacturing processes and increase your profits, without increasing costs.

 

Imagine smoothly transitioning your new product manufacturing from R&D to the pilot plant or factory. You can do so, every time, when you design a robust process from Step One.   Your streamlined, optimized development process allows you to  move quickly from research to manufacturing. Your manufacturing lines stay up, building high quality products,  with high yields.

 

Are you dealing with an existing process that is not performing well?  Use Design of Experiments  to study your process weakness(s), efficiently collect the data you need to understand your bottleneck, and get your process on track.   

 

Design of Experiments has helped the world’s leading manufacturers  develop high quality products and processes efficiently.  Design of Experiments works on any manufactured product.

 

Manufacturing Industry Case Study

 

The bottom line: In one weekend, engineers used Design of Experiments to figure out why pivotal welds were cracking.  The production line was no longer down, and 60 accelerometers were shipped on time.

 

The project:

 

Our client  manufactures accelerometers. A pivotal part was cracking, stopping shipment on all

accelerometers. The line was down.

 

Production uses a YAG laser to weld the parts. A Designed Experiment varied the laser power, rpm and revolutions (continuous factors). Two different lens were included in the design (discrete factors).The depth of the weld was measured for each trial run of the experiment.

 

Experimenters discovered , in seven hours, the optimal settings for the YAG laser to maximize the weld depth. Parts with maximum weld depth did not crack and produced operable accelerometers.