Taguchi method – TechConnect Briefs

Manufacture of ultrafine drug particles via the Rapid Expansion of Supercritical Solution (RESS) Process using Taguchi approach

Asghari I., Esmaeilzadeh F., Shiraz University, IR

A multitude of pharmaceutical substances are often insoluble or only slightly soluble in aqueous media and the application of oral or injectable drugs is often limited by its low bioavailability. Recently, there have been great [...]

The Use of Taguchi Method to Determine Factors Affecting the size of fine attapulgite particles generated by rapid expansion supercritical solution with and without cosolvents

Asghari I., Esmaeilzadeh F., Shiraz University, IR

The presence of fine particles tends to increase viscosity. Besides the solid load particle properties, especially the specific surface area, have a pronounced impact on the suspension’s viscosity. Attapulgite is used as a viscosifier in [...]

Statistical Optimal Design of Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS)

Ren H., Jog A., Fair R.B., Duke University, US

A three-step technique for MEMS quality optimization is demonstrated. It exploits the relative merits of its constituent optimization components. Analog Devices' ADXL50 accelerometer was the test device with microstructure dimen-sions serving as design parameters. Manufacturing [...]

Design of Reconfigurable Composite Microsystems Based on Hardware/Software Co-design Principles

Zhang T., Chakrabarty K., Fair R.B., Duke University, US

Custom microsystems are expensive, inflexible, and unsuitable for high-volume production. We address this problem by leveraging hardware/software co-design principles to design reconfigurable composite microsystems. We partition the system design parameters into nonreconfigurable and reconfigurable categories. [...]