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In the manufacturing and assembly processes carried out at Boeing for the preparation of aircrafts, they
have reported complaints to their one of the supplier (Tata Aviation Limited) in India. They reported the
problems in machines parts. Tata Aviation Ltd. team has brainstormed among in their manufacturing,
design and quality teams to understand the cause of these customer complaints and identified few with
the help of cause and effect, why-why analysis. The table below presents the factors and levels
identified by the team.

Remember here: the objective is to reduce the customer complaints (So smaller is the better case)

S. No Factor(s) Levels
1 Heat Treatment (HT) °C 350 355 360
2 Hydro Press (HP) Atm 10 10.5 11
3 Deep Press (DP) Atm 20 21 22
4 Hose Length (HL) cm 14.8 15 15.2
5 Aluminum Ageing (AA) °F 970 975 980

This is a case of 5 factors and 3 levels.

You are to develop the experimental design and help the company to optimize the process with your
recommendation.

You can use data below for the next step of analysis for 25 experiments (that needs to be otherwise
collected from the shop floor on the basis of designed experiment). R1, R2 and R3 is the % age of
defective machined parts produced after conducting the designed experiments and those may lead to
customer complaints. Come up with your prediction for optimizing the process of machining.

S.No R1 R2 R3
1 16.5 17.3 17.5
2 18.4 19.2 18.6
3 16.8 17.5 17
4 17.3 19.1 18.5
5 18.4 21.2 18.8
6 22.4 23.2 24.5
7 18.2 21.3 21.8
8 19.3 22.2 21.5
9 21.4 21.8 21.5
10 14.5 15.5 8.4
11 8.5 14.3 14.8
12 13.8 12.5 14.6
13 15.5 16.7 15.4
14 17.8 16.4 14.5
15 14.8 15.6 16.3
16 15.7 14.8 15.8
17 14.6 14.8 16
18 12 12.6 13.7
19 12.7 12.8 11.9
20 13.8 12.7 12.4
21 5.2 15.7 14.6
22 14.3 13.6 14.8
23 14.2 12.7 13.5
24 13.5 13.8 14.2
25 10.4 11.5 11.8
26 11.3 11.7 12.6
27 11.6 11.7 12.0