Planning, Design and Details of Experimental Investigation

This chapter describes planning, design and details of experiments for different experimentation stages, i.e., trial, pilot, main and confirmation. This includes details on design of experiment technique, fixed and variable parameters and measures of process performance for each experimental stage. The procedure and instruments used during evaluation of process performance measures (i.e. response parameters) are also given. The last section of the chapter presents the methods and tools used for the analysis of the data resulted throughout this research work.