“Cost is more

important than
quality but quality is
the best way to
reduce cost.”

Presented by:
Caluya, Jorrel
Cinco, Issa Mae A.
Libungan, Marivie A.
Born: January 1, 1924
Died: June 2, 2012

 An engineering and statistican

 Developed a methodology for applying
statistics to improve the quality of
manufactured goods.
 In 1942 he was recruited and taken to the
Department of Astronomy of the
Navigation Institute of the Imperial
Japanese Navy.
 In 1948 he entered the Ministry of Public
Health and Social Welfare, where he was
under the command of the eminent
statesman Matosaburo Masuyama, who
motivated the interests of Taguchi in the
design of experiments.

 He spent 12 years creating methods to

improve the quality and reliability of the
Electrical Communications Laboratory. By
that time, he was also a consultant to
Toyota.
Key Elements:

 Taguchi’s loss function

 Philosphy of off-line quality control,
 Design of experiments
 Isa diagram of the loss for the company that
actual results differ from a target value.

 Isintended to capture not only the loss to

the customer, but to society and society at
large which can be measured by cost.

 Taguchi defines loss as a quadratic expression

in terms of measured quality characteristics
of the part that ranges between the target
value and the specification limits, that is,
upper and lower specification limits.
1. Identify the main function, side effects, and
failure mode
2. Identify the noise factors, testing conditions,
and quality characteristics
3. Identify the objective function to be optimized
4. Identify the control factors and their levels
5. Select the orthogonal array matrix experiment
6. Conduct the matrix experiment
7. Analyze the data, predict the optimum levels
and performance
8. Perform the verification experiment and plan
the future action
 Taguchi’s rule for manufacturing

 The best opportunity to eliminate variation is

during a design of a product and its
manufacturing process

 The process has three stages:

 System Design
 Parameter Design
 Tolerance Design
1. System Design
 This
is the design at the conceptual level, involving
creativity and innovation.

2. Parameter Design
 Once the concept is established, the nominal values
of the various dimensions and design parameters need
to be set, the detail design phase of conventional
engineering. This is sometimes called robustification.

3. Tolerance Design
 With a successfully completed prameter design, and
an understanding of the effect that the various
parameters have a performance, resources can be
focused on reducing and controlling variation in the
critical few dimensionss