Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide a case study on endorsing process improvement in maritime operations by implementing design of experiments on Lean Six Sigma performance responses. It is demonstrated how process efficiency and environmental muda may be dealt with...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology that may aid in assessing information technology (IT) quality characteristic optimisation through the use of simple and robust tools with minimal effort. Design/methodology/approach – Non‐linear saturated fractional factorial...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology that may aid in assessing ecological quality multi‐trait screening through the use of simple and robust tools while exerting minimal effort in conducting trials and interpreting results. Design/methodology/approach – Response...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a methodology that may assist quality professionals in assessing process variation with a combination of tools based on simple robust statistics. The technique targets alternative way of screening and detection of common and special causes in...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to examine product formulation screening at the industrial level in terms of multi‐trait improvement by considering several pertinent controlling factors. Design/methodology/approach – The study adopts Taguchi's orthogonal arrays (OAs) for sufficient and...

Purpose – The aim of this paper is to circumvent the multi‐distribution effects and small sample constraints that may arise in unreplicated‐saturated fractional factorial designs during construction blueprint screening. Design/methodology/approach – A simple additive ranking scheme is...

Purpose – Screening simultaneously for effects and their curvature may be useful in industrial environments when an economic restriction on experimentation is imposed. Saturated‐unreplicated fractional factorial designs have been a regular outlet for scheduling screening investigations under...

There is a growing interest in applying robust techniques for profiling complex processes in industry. In this work, we present an approach for analyzing fractional-factorial data by building distribution-free models suitable for dealing with replicated trials in search of non-linear effects....

Profiling engineered data with robust mining methods continues attracting attention in knowledge engineering systems. The purpose of this article is to propose a simple technique that deals with non-linear multi-factorial multi-characteristic screening suitable for knowledge discovery studies....

The optimal configuration of the proton exchange membrane fuel-cell (PEMFC) stack has received attention recently because of its potential use as an isolated energy distributor for household needs. In this work, the original complex problem for generating an optimal PEMFC stack based on the...