5.
Process Improvement
5.5. Advanced topics 5.5.3. How do you optimize a process? 5.5.3.1. Single response case
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Optimal operating conditions may fall outside region where experiment conducted |
Sometimes the optimal operating conditions x*
simply fall outside the region where the experiment was conducted.
In these cases, constrained optimization techniques can be used to
find the solution x* that optimizes
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Ridge analysis is a method for finding optimal factor settings that satisfy certain constraints |
"Ridge Analysis", as developed by
Hoerl (1959),
Hoerl (1964) and
Draper (1963), is an
optimization technique that finds factor settings
x* such that they
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Solve with non-linear programming software | The original formulation of Ridge Analysis was based on the eigenvalues of a stationarity system. With the wide availability of non-linear programming codes, Ridge Analysis problems can be solved without recourse to eigenvalue analysis. |