Starting Out with DOE
Example and Key Concepts
A designed experiment is a controlled set of tests designed to model and explore the relationship between factors and one or more responses. Use Easy DOE to guide you through the entire DOE process. JMP includes a variety of tools that enable you to create efficient experimental designs that work for your situation. In particular, these classes of designs are available:
• The Custom Design platform customizes a design for your unique situation. It constructs designs that accommodate any number of factors of any type and factors that are difficult to change (split plot situations). You control the number of runs.
• The Definitive Screening Design platform constructs an innovative class of screening designs where main effects are not aliased with each other or with two-way interactions. These designs also allow estimation of quadratic terms.
• The Screening Design, Response Surface Design, Full Factorial Design, Mixture Design, and Taguchi Arrays platforms construct traditional experimental designs.
• The Covering Array, Choice Design, Space Filling Design, Accelerated Life Test Design, Nonlinear Design, Balanced Incomplete Block Design, and MSA Design platforms construct specialized design types.
The Evaluate Design, Compare Designs, and Augment Design platforms provide tools for evaluating and augmenting existing design. The Sample Size Explorers platform addresses sample size and power calculations for a variety of study types.
This chapter presents an example that illustrates the JMP approach to DOE. This chapter also discusses the framework for DOE, the workflow that supports design creation, and principles that are fundamental to DOE.
Figure 3.1 Example of a Profiler Plot
