Optimization-Assisted Central Composite Design

Optimization-assisted central composite design (CCD) combines the rotatable, second-order experimental layout of central composite design with mathematical optimization algorithms — typically desirability functions, response surface optimization, or metaheuristics — to find the factor settings that simultaneously maximize, minimize, or hit target values for one or more response variables. It is the most widely applied response-surface optimization workflow in chemical, pharmaceutical, food science, and manufacturing engineering.