Summarize examples 1.1 by determining the statement of the problem, objectives, choice of the response, variable, factors, design process.thank you 3. Layout of the components on the board4. Operator5. Production rate.A flow solder machine is used in the manufacturing processfor printed circuit boards. The machine cleans the boards ina flux, preheats the boards, and then moves them along aconveyor through a wave of molten solder. This solderprocess makes the electrical and mechanical connectionsfor the leaded components on the board.The process currently operates around the I percent defec-tive level. That is, about I percent of the solder joints on aboard are defective and require manual retouching. However,because the average printed circuit board contains over 2000solder joints, even a l percent defective level results in far toomany solder joints requiring rework. The process engineerresponsible for this area would like to use a designed experi-ment to determine which machine parameters are influentialin the occurrence of solder defects and which adjustmentsshould be made to those variables to reduce solder defects.In this situation, engineers are interested in character-izing the flow solder machine; that is, they want to deter-mine which factors (both controllable and uncontrollable)affect the occurrence of defects on the printed circuitboards. To accomplish this, they can design an experimentthat will enable them to estimate the magnitude and direc-tion of the factor effects; that is, how much does theresponse variable (defects per unit) change when each fac-tor is changed, and does changing the factors togetherproduce different results than are obtained from individualfactor adjustments-that is, do the factors interact?Sometimes we call an experiment such as this a screeningexperiment. Typically, screening or characterization exper-iments involve using fractional factorial designs, such as inthe golf example in Figure 1.8.The information from this screening or characterizationexperiment will be used to identify the critical process fac-tors and to determine the direction of adjustment for thesefactors to reduce further the number of defects per unit. Theexperiment may also provide information about which fac-tors should be more carefully controlled during routine man-ufacturing to prevent high defect levels and erratic processperformance. Thus, one result of the experiment could be theapplication of techniques such as control charts to one ormore process variables (such as solder temperature), inaddition to control charts on process output. Over time, if theprocess is improved enough, it may be possible to base mostof the process control plan on controlling process input vari-ables instead of control charting the output.The flow solder machine has several variables that canbe controlled. They include1. Solder temperature2. Preheat temperature3. Conveyor speed4. Flux type5. Flux specific gravity6. Solder wave depth7. Conveyor angle.In addition to these controllable factors, several other factorscannot be casily controlled during routine manufacturing,although they could be controlled for the purposes of a test.They are1. Thickness of the printed circuit board2. Types of components used on the board

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Summarize examples 1.1 by determining the statement of the problem, objectives, choice of the response, variable, factors, design process. thank you