Characterizing Performance Variation of Product Designs

Figures & data

Figure 1. Stress and strength depicted as probability distributions.

Figure 2. Experimental layout for matrix experimentation.

Table 1. Factor and noise levels

Design factors	Nominal levels	Noise level 1	Noise level 2
	R1	R11	R12
R	R2	R21	R22
	R3	R31	R32
	C1	C11	C12
C	C2	C21	C22
	C3	C31	C32

Figure 3. Experimental layout for the CMCS approach.

Figure 4. Voltage distribution: (a) and (b) matrix; (c) and (d) CMCS.

Table 2. Estimates of output voltage variation

Approach	Average performance (volts)	Standard deviation	Coefficient of variation (CV)	CV percent reduction
Matrix	4.7390	0.3569	0.0753
CMCS	4.7420	0.2282	0.0403	53.51