Pros And Cons Ofaat

Per the textbook, trying to understand factors that impact the outcomes of business process is an important aspect of improving business operations. Conventional wisdom plans experiment one-factor-at-a-time (OFAAT). Compare and contrast the main advantages and disadvantages of OFAAT and DOE and select the approach (e.g., OFAAT or DOE) that you would use in order to obtain effective business process. Provide a rationale for your response.

ADVANTAGES OF DOE OVER OFAT EXPERIMENTS

A designed experiment is a more effective way to determine the impact of two or more factors on a response than an OFAT experiment, where only one factor is changed at one time while the other factors are kept fixed, because: it requires less resources (experiments,