The RSS West Midlands Local Group (WMLG) was supposed to clelebrate the 75th anniversary in 2020. Celebrations have been postoponed to 2021.

The Chair of the RSS WMLG, Tim Davis, will give a talk. The Annual General Meeting will follow. Below details about the talk.

Title:The study of variability in engineering design—An appreciation and a retrospective of Jim Morrison's 1957 paper

Abstract: We explore the concept of parameter design as applied to the production of glass beads in the manufacture of metal-encapsulated transistors. The main motivation of this work is to complete the analysis hinted at in the original publication by Jim Morrison in 1957, which was an early example of discussing the idea of transmitted variation in engineering design, and an influential paper in the development of analytic parameter design as a data-centric engineering activity. Parameter design is a secondary design activity focused on selecting the nominals of the design variables to achieve the required target performance and to simultaneously reduce the variance around the target. Although the 1957 paper is not recent, its approach to engineering design is modern.

Reference: Morrison, SJ (1957) "The study of variability in engineering design". Applied Statistics 6(2), 133–138
 

Tim Davis is the Chair of the RSS WMLG, more information available at http://www.timdavis.co.uk

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