Customer Story A winning design of experiments game plan In football, a desperate, long-distance throw into the end zone – a Hail Mary – is occasionally the best option. But in research? Never. That’s a lesson Jed Campbell conveys when expounding on the virtues of a design of experiments approach to problem solving. Campbell is quality manager at US Synthetic, based in Orem, UT. The strategy at US Synthetic is to empower all employees to see and resolve quality issues, and Campbell teaches techniques that are most likely to lead to optimal outcomes. The Hail Mary is not among them. Here’s the gist of Campbell’s Hail Mary analogy: Experimenters may sometimes feel they lack sufficient time or resources to conduct a properly designed experiment, instead opting for a Hail Mary a

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