Managers

Can we get things done faster? Yes.  The key is being more efficient.  Using  designed experiments, you get the maximum amount of information from the minimum amount of work.  So instead of wasting time running experiments that add little or no value, your people run only experiments necessary to completing the task at hand.  The bottom line is that you can get things done faster. We need a more organized approach An experiment design organizes your work so you know exactly which experiments are important to run and  you know which experiments don't need to be run.  You organize your results in a “map” of your product's behavior or of the process you're improving.  This “map” allows  you to predict what's going to happen in the future without actually having to run more experiments.  How can we develop our ideas? Developing your ideas really amounts to understanding how to design your product to meet your customer's expectations.   Design of Experiments allows you to do that.  By building a model of your ideas in the computer, you can run experiments to see how things behave with all sorts of different product configurations and you can find the best design to meet all of your customer's requirements simultaneously. What we do now is too expensive. What most people do now is too expensive because they have no systematic approach to meet their goals.  No-one knows which experiments are the best ones to run and which will be be worthless.  With designed experiments you only run experiments that have value.  This means that every experiment you run contributes to building a model in the computer that can predict  for you what will work best.  Using these predictions, you go to your lab or to your shop floor and actually deliver the solutions you have been seeking.  By only running experiments that have value for you, you reduce labor and material costs.  This adds up to significant savings of your money.