An engineer for a golf equipment manufacturer wants to design a new golf ball that has better flight distance. The engineer has identified four control factors (core material, core diameter, number of dimples, and cover thickness) and one noise factor (type of golf club). Each control factor has 2 levels. Because there is no signal factor, the engineer creates a static Taguchi design.
Minitab displays a summary of the L8 design, which includes 4 factors and 8 runs.
The Minitab worksheet shows the settings for each factor for all 8 experimental runs. The design was created using the default settings of 1 for the first setting and 2 for the second setting, although you can enter actual settings for each level.
Taguchi Array | L8(2^4) |
Factors: | 4 |
Runs: | 8 |
C1 | C2 | C3 | C4 |
---|---|---|---|
A | B | C | D |
1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
1 | 1 | 2 | 2 |
1 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
1 | 2 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
2 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
2 | 2 | 2 | 2 |