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DOE Using the Paper Helicopter
Jack Meagher, Manufacturing Excellence Coordinator
New Hampshire Ball Bearings
175 Jaffrey Road, Peterborough, NH 03458
jmeagher@nhbb.com

This hands-on workshop will introduce designed experiments for those new to the concept or reinforce the concept for those who have had experience with DOE in the past.

This presentation will use audience participation to run two factor, three replicate DOE’s with a response of flight time. Each group will choose their two factors from a list of four possible factors. Some of these factors will be variable and others will be attribute. After the initial runs, each group will run optimization on their “process”. After optimum settings have been established, the groups will run 30 trials at those settings and compare total variation of the trials and deviation from “optimum”. A friendly competition will determine which group(s) on average come closest to their optimum and which group(s) have the least amount of variation in their 30 trial runs.

Presenter:

Jack Meagher is the Manufacturing Excellence Coordinator for the HiTech Division of New Hampshire Ball Bearings in Peterborough, NH. His duties include coordinating HiTech’s Continual Improvement activities and training others to become Six Sigma Green Belts. Jack is a graduate of UMass Lowell with a B.S. in Nuclear Engineering and is a Certified Six Sigma Black Belt and an ASQ Certified Quality Engineer. He is Past Chair of the Granite State Section 0104 of the American Society for Quality.

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