Associative Classification for Failure Prediction in Aluminum Wheel Molding: A Case Study
Bildiriler > Özet Bildiri · 2019
Yazarlar: İnanç KABASAKAL
International Conference on Data Science, Machine Learning and Statistics, Türkiye, Van, Uluslararası, Sözlü Sunum, Özet Bildiri, 2019-2019, ss 42-42
Özet
<p>In the verge of the Industry 4.0 transformation, the digitalization is a primary concern for manufacturers. As a popular concept, Smart Manufacturing emphasizes the collection of data captured through various processes for further use. Analysis of process data with machine learning algorithms might provide useful information for root cause analysis and failure prediction. As a supervised learning approach, Associative Classification (AC) is often used for prediction tasks. In our study, molding process data obtained from a global industry-leading wheel rim manufacturer was analyzed for fault prediction. The study might be described as a preliminary model developed for failure prediction on a real-time setting. The proposed approach for prediction consists of two steps. Firstly, the process data reported for subsequent steps were individually inspected with individuals control charts. The values out of control limits were marked as events that might correspond to potential causes of failures. With such assumption, an event dataset was organized where each event is linked to a part-code along with a class label that denotes the type of failure, if any. Among the classification techniques in the data mining context, Associative Classification was adopted due to the descriptive nature of rules. Accordingly, when the model rises a fault prediction, the classifier rule also involves a root cause for the problem. The event data constructed after the process control was analyzed to extract rules with Association Rule Mining (ARM) technique. RuleGenerator, an implementation of the Apriori Algorithm has been employed for the discovery of rules and classifier rules. Among the 7295 rules discovered, 91 classifier rules were presented in the results. With a minimum lift value of ∼22.3 among the classifiers, the model might be promising despite the limited size of the dataset analyzed.</p>