5. Process Improvement

5.1.	Introduction

This section describes the basic concepts of the Design of Experiments (DOE)

This section introduces the basic concepts, terminology, goals and procedures underlying the proper statistical design of experiments. Design of experiments is abbreviated as DOE throughout this chapter.

Topics covered are:

• What is experimental design or DOE?
• What are the goals or uses of DOE?
• What are the steps in DOE?