🛠️ Invention or technique

Taguchi methods

Métodos de Taguchi

Date
años 1950 · confidence low
Place
Tokyo, Japan
Credited to
Genichi Taguchi
Field
Knowledge & symbols

What it is

A set of robust-design statistical methods developed by Genichi Taguchi to improve manufactured product quality through controlled experiments and loss functions.

What it led to

  • influenced quality control in the Japanese, and later global, automotive and electronics industries
  • popularized off-line experimental design in engineering
  • spread to fields such as biotechnology and marketing

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