I am struggling with quite a complex problem in which I think I may be able to solve or at least partially solve using the Excel solver tool.
I am trying to set up a design of experiments analysis in which I have a number of parameters at two levels. I have one specific objective which I would like to be constant for each experiment, mass, e.g 15 grams. I also have written up some constraints on what values the parameters can and cannot be. I would then like to execute some kind of solver to optimise my parameters subject to constraints to achieve a constant mass (or at least as close as possible).
The excel solver is perfectly set up for this problem for a single objective cell but I need this tool to work for about 32 cells which are calculated using the same variables.
High and low level parameters and constraints
Design matrix and total mass