Assessment
Genichi Taguchi has made valuable contributions to statistics and engineering. His emphasis on loss to society, techniques for investigating variation in experiments, and his overall strategy of system, parameter and tolerance design have been influential in improving manufactured quality worldwide. Although some of the statistical aspects of the Taguchi methods are disputable, there is no dispute that they are widely applied to various processes. A quick search in related journals, as well as the World Wide Web, reveals that the method is being successfully implemented in diverse areas,such as the design of VLSI; optimization of communication & information networks, development of electronic circuits, laser engraving of photo masks, cash-flow optimization in banking,government policymaking, runway utilization improvement in airports, and even robust eco-design.
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