Example of General MANOVA

An automotive parts supplier assesses the usability and quality of the door locks that they provide. The locks are manufactured using two different methods at three plants. The production manager wants to determine whether the production method and the plant affect the final product. The production manager collects data on locks from each plant, produced by each method.

The manager collects data on the quality and usability of samples of locks. To assess how method and plant affect both response variables at the same time, the manager does a general MANOVA. The manager decides to use a significance level of 0.10 to decide which effects to examine in more detail.