Resolution III Design Example

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A baker wants to investigate the factors that most affect the taste of the cakes made in his bakery. He chooses to investigate seven factors, each at two levels: flour type (factor [math]\displaystyle{ A\,\! }[/math]), conditioner type (factor [math]\displaystyle{ B\,\! }[/math]), sugar quantity (factor [math]\displaystyle{ C\,\! }[/math]), egg quantity (factor [math]\displaystyle{ D\,\! }[/math]), preservative type (factor [math]\displaystyle{ E\,\! }[/math]), bake time (factor [math]\displaystyle{ F\,\! }[/math]) and bake temperature (factor [math]\displaystyle{ G\,\! }[/math]). The baker expects most of these factors and all higher order interactions to be inactive. On the basis of this, he decides to run a screening experiment using a 2 [math]\displaystyle{ _{\text{III}}^{7-4}\,\! }[/math] design that requires just 8 runs. The cakes are rated on a scale of 1 to 10. The design properties for the 2 [math]\displaystyle{ _{\text{III}}^{7-4}\,\! }[/math] design (with generators [math]\displaystyle{ D=AB\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ E=AC\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ F=BC\,\! }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ G=ABC\,\! }[/math]) are shown in the following figure.


Design properties for the experiment in the example.


The resulting design along with the rating of the cakes corresponding to each run is shown in the following figure.


Experiment design for the example.


The normal probability plot of effects for the unreplicated design shows main effects [math]\displaystyle{ B\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ C\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ D\,\! }[/math] and [math]\displaystyle{ G\,\! }[/math] to be significant, as shown in the next figure.


Normal probability plot of effects for the experiment in the example.


However, for this design, the following alias relations exist for the main effects:

[math]\displaystyle{ \begin{align} & A= & A+BD+CE+FG \\ & B= & B+AD+CF+EG \\ & C= & C+AE+BF+DG \\ & D= & D+AB+CG+EF \\ & E= & E+AC+BG+DF \\ & F= & F+BC+AG+DE \\ & G= & G+CD+BE+AF \end{align}\,\! }[/math]


Based on the alias structure, three separate possible conclusions can be drawn. It can be concluded that effect [math]\displaystyle{ CD\,\! }[/math] is active instead of [math]\displaystyle{ G\,\! }[/math] so that effects [math]\displaystyle{ C\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ D\,\! }[/math] and their interaction, [math]\displaystyle{ CD\,\! }[/math], are the significant effects. Another conclusion can be that effect [math]\displaystyle{ DG\,\! }[/math] is active instead of [math]\displaystyle{ C\,\! }[/math] so that effects [math]\displaystyle{ D\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ G\,\! }[/math] and their interaction, [math]\displaystyle{ DG\,\! }[/math], are significant. Yet another conclusion can be that effects [math]\displaystyle{ C\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ G\,\! }[/math] and their interaction, [math]\displaystyle{ CG\,\! }[/math], are significant. To accurately discover the active effects, the baker decides to a run a fold-over of the present design and base his conclusions on the effect values calculated once results from both the designs are available.


The present design is shown next.


Effect values for the experiment in the example.


Using the alias relations, the effects obtained from the DOE folio for the present design can be expressed as:


[math]\displaystyle{ \begin{align} & Effec{{t}_{A}}= & 0.025=A+BD+CE+FG \\ & Effec{{t}_{B}}= & -0.225=B+AD+CF+EG \\ & Effec{{t}_{C}}= & 2.075=C+AE+BF+DG \\ & Effec{{t}_{D}}= & 2.875=D+AB+CG+EF \\ & Effec{{t}_{E}}= & -0.025=E+AC+BG+DF \\ & Effec{{t}_{F}}= & -0.075=F+BC+AG+DE \\ & Effec{{t}_{G}}= & 3.825=G+CD+BE+AF \end{align}\,\! }[/math]


The fold-over design for the experiment is obtained by reversing the signs of the columns [math]\displaystyle{ D\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ E\,\! }[/math], and [math]\displaystyle{ F\,\! }[/math]. In a DOE folio, you can fold over a design using the following window.

Fold-over design window

The resulting design and the corresponding response values obtained are shown in the following figures.

Fold-over design for the experiment in the example.


Effect values for the fold-over design in the example.


Comparing the absolute values of the effects, the active effects are [math]\displaystyle{ B\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ C\,\! }[/math], [math]\displaystyle{ D\,\! }[/math] and the interaction [math]\displaystyle{ CD\,\! }[/math]. Therefore, the most important factors affecting the taste of the cakes in the present case are sugar quantity, egg quantity and their interaction.