STAVEX for Experts

After a very brief refresher of the Design of Experiments basics, the course examines in detail about ten challenging practical cases. The difficulties most often arise from the specific real-world context, but can also be due to the dynamic nature of the experimentation or to modelling issues. Each case is explored with real data, and an efficient practical solution is presented. Participants will for instance learn to optimize processes or products over a period of a time, to model very specific formulation restrictions, and to treat correctly problems in which the availability of materials strongly restricts the selection of the design points. The course also explains how to react when statistical models are not fully satisfactory and how to account for previous knowledge when applying the DoE approach.

The course includes hands-on software demonstrations and PC-based exercises based on complex real industrial case studies, which offers an opportunity to extend significantly one’s practical experience. Emphasis is placed on providing appropriate hands-on solutions – even in contexts which raise many uncertainties at first glance.

The course uses the intuitive, web-based DoE software tool STAVEX (for the intranet). However, the approaches proposed are mostly generic and may be applied also with other tools, depending on how extensive their functionality is.