Design and Analyse Your Experiment Using MINITAB

Summary:This Design of Experiments (DOE) book provides excellent case studies but in the end was not as helpful as  Lean Six Sigma and Minitab: The Complete Toolbox Guide for All Lean Six Sigma Practitioners (3rd edition)  when it came time to design my experiment.Pros/cons:+ the authors use three different organizations: an engineering company, a pharmaceutical company, and a university to provide real-world case studies that are relevant to engineers, scientists and academia.+ the case studies are diverse and relevant- uses minitab version 14 (The current version is 16 as of December, 2011)- all screenshots are low resolution, black and white, and usually smallSubjective:I find the main text difficult to read and I simply didnt learn much from it. The case studies (which are numerous) are quite useful but I feel like there is a missing link between the examples and the DOE topics. Also the screenshots used in this book are truely off-putting; low-res black and whites are just not acceptable.The Lean Six Sigma and Minitab book has a solid section on DOE that I was able to jump right into. Lean Six Sigma and Minitab is not a substitute but rather a complement - it will teach you the foundations of DOE in Minitab that are sorely lacking in this book. Lean Six Sigma and Minitab: The Complete Toolbox Guide for All Lean Six Sigma Practitioners (3rd edition)