ABSTRACT

Mahalanobis-Taguchi system The Mahalanobis-Taguchi system (MTS) was developed by Taguchi as a diagnosis and forecasting technique using multivariate data (Taguchi et al. 2001; Taguchi and Jugulum 2002; Woodall et al. 2003). Consisting of Mahalanobis distance (MD) and Taguchi’s robust engineering, the MTS is used for multivariate systems.