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Poorly written acticle
This article has become a compilation of criticism of the Teguchi method and no longer contains a description of what the methodology is. As such it is a useless article. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.174.179.213 (talk) 00:59, 7 January 2015 (UTC)
This acticle is poorly done and needs a lot of improvement. It appears to be written by people who don't understand the Taguchi Methods, and cannot even clearly explain the fundamental principles. It pays too much attention discussing whether Western statisticians endorse the Taguchi Methods, and does not reference the many successful examples of its implementation in the engineering world.
A part of the introduction should say something like "Taguchi Methods are used in product development to make a design robust, ie. noise factors (factors that cannot be controlled, such as ambient temperature) have negligible effect on the function of the product.
<Totally agree ! - Sentances such as "Under the conditions of the Gauss-Markov theorem, least squares estimators have minimum variance among all mean-unbiased estimators. " may be appropriate in a statistcs textbook. but not in Wikipedia - there must be a Plain English way of explaining this - it's not rocket science! >
I have a lot of experience in using Taguchi myself and can attest to its usefulness. I have generally found that people who criticize Taguchi either don't understand it at all, or have incorrectly used it and thus had an unsuccessful outcome.
I suggest that the book "Engineering Methods for Robust Product Design" by Fowlkes and Creveling be added to the list of references. Also, add this as an external link -http://www.isixsigma.com/library/content/c020311a.asp Logicman1966 03:46, 26 July 2007 (UTC)