Question

Why/When would you use a screening design?

Answer 1

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Usually you use screening design to identify the most important factors that affect process quality. After screening experiments, you usually do optimization experiments that provide more detail on the relationships among the most important factors and the response variables.

its primary purpose is to identify significant main effects, rather than interaction effects, the latter being assumed an order of magnitude less important