Endnotes

1 N. Logothetis, Managing for Total Quality: From Deming to Taguchi and SPC (New York: Prentice-Hall, 1992), p. 298.

2 R. L. Plackett and J. P. Burman, “The Design of Multifactorial Experiments,” Biometrica, 33 (1946), pp. 305–325.

3 Op. cit., Logothetis, p. 302.

4 Y. Kanemoto, “Robust Design for a Frequency Modulation Circuit,” Quality Engineering, Vol. 6, No. 5, pp. 33–37. This paper is also in G. Taguchi, et al., Taguchi’s Quality Engineering Handbook (New York: Wiley, 2005), pp. 741–745.

5 B. Kanchana, Software Quality and Dependability Issues for the Airborne Surveillance Platform: A Systems Engineering Study, Doctoral dissertation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India, December 1998, p. 107.

6 B. Kanchana and V. V. S. Sarma, Software Quality Enhancement Through Software Process Optimization Using Taguchi Methods, Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Engineering of Computer Based Systems, IEEE, Nashville, TN, March 7–12, 1999, pp. 188–193.

7 ASI Consulting Group, Robust Engineering: Week I Workshop Manual (Detroit: ASI, 2001), pp. B1–B19.

8 R. N. Kacker and S. Ghosh, “Robust Design Methods,” Chapter 20 of Handbook of Statistical Methods for Engineers and Scientists, 2nd ed. (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1997), pp. 20.1–20.29.

9 Ibid., p. 20.