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Taguchi Method - Heat Treatment of Steel
Taguchi Method - Heat Treatment of Steel
EXAMPLE
Heat treatment process used to harden steel
components
Temperature
Quenching Rate
Cooling Time
Carbon Content
CO2 Concentration
Level 1 Level 2
760
900
35
140
1
300
1
6
5
20
C
o
C/s
s
wt% C
o
OBJECTIVE
Determine which process parameters have the
greatest impact on the hardness of the steel
components
ARRAY SELECTION
5 process parameters + 2 Levels = L8 Array
Experiment
P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
P6
P7
Experiment
Carbon Content
(wt% C)
Quenching
Rate (oC/s)
Cooling
Time (s)
CO2 Concentration
(mol %)
Temperature
(oC)
35
760
35
20
900
140
300
760
140
300
20
900
35
300
900
35
300
20
760
140
900
140
20
760
RUNNING EXPERIMENTS
Run 4 trials for each experiment
Experiment
T1
T2
T3
T4
68.00
61.41
66.33
97.07
69.84
64.76
86.07
51.67
74.36
61.30
94.57
96.81
71.71
58.42
77.23
60.05
91.27
90.89
84.54
63.72
54.39
73.01
50.10
79.62
64.65
91.51
72.68
84.33
60.31
60.69
76.73
74.97
Taguchi Equations
S m1
S e1 S T 1 S m1
(1 / N )( S m1 Ve1 )
SN1 10 log
Ve1
782.9257
1
260.9752
4 1
1 10 log
(1 / 4)(21435.71 260.9752)
13.072
260.9752
Experiment
1
1,1
P1 P2 P3 P4 P5
1 1 1 1 1
SN
13.07
13.55
13.61
17.29
16.06
13.02
16.30
17.67
Level P1
P2
P3
P4
P5
14.38 13.93 15.15 14.76 14.34
1
15.76 16.22 15.00 15.39 15.80
2
1.38 2.29 0.15 0.63 1.46