This paper presents a general method for nding optimal blocking arrangements of pure-level and mixed-level orthogonal designs of resolution 3. The method requires enumeration of all non-isomorphic `parent designs' that include the treatment factors as well as the future blocking factor. For all...

There is currently no general approach to orthogonally block two-level and multi-level orthogonal arrays and mixed-level orthogonal arrays. In this article, we present a mixed integer linear programming approach that seeks an optimal blocking arrangement for any type of regular and nonregular...