I N T R O D U C T I O N O F A M E T H O D T O C O M P A R E P R O F I L E S W I T H L T B A N D S T B T I M E-O R I E N T E D Q U A L I T Y C H A R A C T E R I S T I C S

Abstract:
In recent years, applications of quality characteristics, which take different values in time, have been widely used. These quality characteristics are called time oriented quality characteristics, and can be defined for different types of quality characteristic; such as, nominal the best (NTB), the larger the better (LTB) and the smaller the better (STB). For these quality characteristics, a target profile is defined and the goal is to adjust the control factors of the product in order to have a profile as close to the target profile as possible. The main application of this type of quality characteristic is in pharmaceutical industries. The best design for drug components is searched based on the properties of the drug, such as drug release in the human body, which must follow the target profile. Based on the input data, different approaches may be used. When the entire set of data is available and the relationship between a quality characteristic and the independent variables is defined, approaches such as minimizing the total mean square error, minimizing the sum of quality loss function and defective costs, desirability function, and etc. may be used to optimize control factor settings. However, in some situations with less available information or complex relationships, these approaches cannot be applied, and the only way is to compare the profiles obtained from different design parameters with the target profile to select the appropriate profile and the control factor designs. The most applicable indices for comparing the profiles of time oriented quality characteristics are f1 and f2, which were introduced in pharmaceutical papers for comparing the profiles of drug release with the target profile. These indices are applied for NTB quality characteristics and do not have any application to the LTB and STB quality characteristics. In this research, a new approach for selecting the appropriate profile among existing profiles for LTB and STB quality characteristics is introduced. The proposed method is evaluated by numerical examples. The results show the high ability of the suggested approach in selecting the appropriate profile, based on user policies.
Language:
Persian
Published:
Industrial Engineering & Management Sharif, Volume:31 Issue: 2, 2016
Pages:
113 to 119
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  • Nabatchian، Mohammadreza
    Corresponding Author (1)
    Nabatchian, Mohammadreza
    Assistant Professor Industrial Engineering department, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
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