Taguchi Design (response is Ra)

Taguchi Orthogonal Array Design

L25(5**4)

Factors: 4
Runs: 25

Columns of L25(5**6) Array

1 2 3 4

Taguchi Analysis: surface roughness versus A, B, C, D

Response Table for Signal to Noise Ratios

Smaller is better

Level A B C D
1 -12.436 -9.795 -6.007 -13.857
2 -12.873 -12.410 -9.104 -13.412
3 -14.553 -13.834 -13.343 -13.555
4 -13.460 -14.889 -16.967 -12.749
5 -12.456 -14.850 -20.357 -12.204
Delta 2.117 5.094 14.351 1.653
Rank 3 2 1 4

Response Table for Means

Level A B C D
1 5.496 3.508 2.078 6.334
2 5.524 5.492 2.932 5.848
3 6.416 5.982 4.766 5.742
4 5.500 6.474 7.168 4.706
5 4.888 6.368 10.880 5.194
Delta 1.528 2.966 8.802 1.628
Rank 4 2 1 3
Results:

1- Main effects plot for means

2- Main Effects Plot for SN ratios

3- Interaction Plot for surface roughness

Response Surface Regression: surface roughness versus
A, B, C, D

The following terms cannot be estimated, and

were removed.

B*C
C*D

The analysis was done using coded units.

Estimated Regression Coefficients for surface

roughness

Term Coef SE Coef T P

Constant -0.09556 1.75775 -0.054 0.958
A 1.39996 0.68786 2.035 0.065
B -0.29801 0.85822 -0.347 0.734
C -0.07363 0.88726 -0.083 0.935
D 0.11382 0.73659 0.155 0.880
A*A -0.23168 0.08948 -2.589 0.024
B*B -0.08648 0.10934 -0.791 0.444
C*C 0.62177 0.12693 4.898 0.000
D*D -0.11348 0.10934 -1.038 0.320
A*B 0.37532 0.11161 3.363 0.006
A*C -0.42600 0.13477 -3.161 0.008
A*D 0.01468 0.11161 0.132 0.898
B*D 0.05182 0.08335 0.622 0.546

S = 0.733599 PRESS = 36.0758

R-Sq = 97.90% R-Sq(pred) = 88.27% R Sq(adj)
= 95.80%
Analysis of Variance for surface roughness

Source DF Seq SS Adj SS Adj MS

F P
Regression 12 301.180 301.180 25.0983
46.64 0.000
Linear 4 267.575 2.343 0.5857
1.09 0.405
A 1 0.769 2.229 2.2292
4.14 0.065
B 1 22.458 0.065 0.0649
0.12 0.734
C 1 238.493 0.004 0.0037
0.01 0.935
D 1 5.855 0.013 0.0128
0.02 0.880
Square 4 24.113 19.389 4.8471
9.01 0.001
A*A 1 3.406 3.607 3.6075
6.70 0.024
B*B 1 6.234 0.337 0.3366
0.63 0.444
C*C 1 14.103 12.913 12.9128
23.99 0.000
D*D 1 0.370 0.580 0.5796
1.08 0.320
Interaction 4 9.492 9.492 2.3729
4.41 0.020
A*B 1 3.303 6.086 6.0856
11.31 0.006
A*C 1 5.981 5.377 5.3771
9.99 0.008
A*D 1 0.000 0.009 0.0093
0.02 0.898
B*D 1 0.208 0.208 0.2080
0.39 0.546
Residual Error 12 6.458 6.458 0.5382
Total 24 307.638
 surface
Obs StdOrder roughness Fit SE Fit
Residual St Resid
1 1 1.410 1.253 0.668
0.157 0.52
2 2 2.270 2.380 0.422 -
0.110 -0.18
3 3 4.490 4.454 0.477
0.036 0.06
4 4 7.710 7.476 0.422
0.234 0.39
5 5 11.600 11.445 0.668
0.155 0.51
6 6 2.090 2.343 0.513
0.253 -0.48
7 7 4.040 4.328 0.351 -0.288 -0.45
8 8 6.500 7.259 0.513 -0.759 -1.45
9 9 12.600 13.358 0.594 -0.758 -1.76
10 10 2.390 1.926 0.594 0.464 1.08
11 11 3.340 2.513 0.557 0.827 1.73
12 12 8.500 8.019 0.489 0.481 0.88
13 13 13.400 12.684 0.446 0.716 1.23
14 14 2.900 3.292 0.446 -0.392 -0.67
15 15 3.940 3.633 0.489 0.307 0.56
16 16 5.100 5.747 0.553 -0.647 -1.34
17 17 11.200 10.322 0.436 0.878 1.49
18 18 2.240 2.970 0.436 -0.730 -1.24
19 19 3.080 3.221 0.553 -0.141 -0.29
20 20 5.880 6.233 0.534 -0.353 -0.70
21 21 5.600 6.271 0.633 -0.671 -1.81
22 22 1.450 0.959 0.633 0.491 1.32
23 23 3.280 3.379 0.605 -0.099 -0.24
24 24 6.080 5.363 0.411 0.717 1.18
25 25 8.030 8.295 0.605 -0.265 -0.64

Estimated Regression Coefficients for surface roughness using data in

uncoded
units

Term Coef
Constant -1.34536
A 1.07450
B -0.339641
C -0.649974
D 0.177248
A*A -0.0579189
B*B -0.0216193
C*C 0.155443
D*D -0.0283693
A*B 0.0938294
A*C -0.106500
A*D 0.00367057
B*D 0.0129550
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Taguchi Design

Taguchi Orthogonal Array Design

L25(5**4)

Factors: 4
Runs: 25

Columns of L25(5**6) Array

1 2 3 4

Taguchi Analysis: RS versus A, B, C, D

Response Table for Signal to Noise Ratios

Smaller is better

Level A B C D
1 -42.94 -43.52 -42.87 -39.65
2 -41.65 -43.58 -43.40 -42.71
3 -41.57 -42.86 -42.91 -43.31
4 -42.54 -41.28 -42.33 -43.61
5 -43.94 -41.41 -41.15 -43.37
Delta 2.37 2.30 2.25 3.96
Rank 2 3 4 1

Response Table for Means

Level A B C D
1 142.0 152.0 140.0 102.0
2 131.0 154.0 149.0 138.0
3 121.0 140.0 143.0 147.0
4 137.0 125.0 132.0 154.0
5 159.0 119.0 126.0 149.0
Delta 38.0 35.0 23.0 52.0
Rank 2 3 4 1
1- Main Effects Plot for Means

2- Main Effects Plot for SN ratios

3- Interaction Plot for RS