The identification of control chart patterns is very important in statistical process control. Control chart patterns are categorized as natural and unnatural. The presence of unnatural patterns means that a process i...The identification of control chart patterns is very important in statistical process control. Control chart patterns are categorized as natural and unnatural. The presence of unnatural patterns means that a process is out of statistical control and there are assignable causes for process variation that should be investigated. This paper proposes an artificial neural network algorithm to identify the three basic control chart patterns;natural, shift, and trend. This identification is in addition to the traditional statistical detection of runs in data, since runs are one of the out of control situations. It is assumed that a process starts as a natural pattern and then may undergo only one out of control pattern at a time. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated by measuring the probability of success in identifying the three basic patterns accurately, and comparing these results with previous research work. The comparison showed that the proposed algorithm realized better identification than others.展开更多
The statistical process control techniques used in flexible manufacturing systems arestudied in this paper.Control charts which can be used in the low volume production are pro-posed.The automatic recognizer of unnatu...The statistical process control techniques used in flexible manufacturing systems arestudied in this paper.Control charts which can be used in the low volume production are pro-posed.The automatic recognizer of unnatural patterns for the control chart by using back-propagation neural network is also presented.展开更多
文摘The identification of control chart patterns is very important in statistical process control. Control chart patterns are categorized as natural and unnatural. The presence of unnatural patterns means that a process is out of statistical control and there are assignable causes for process variation that should be investigated. This paper proposes an artificial neural network algorithm to identify the three basic control chart patterns;natural, shift, and trend. This identification is in addition to the traditional statistical detection of runs in data, since runs are one of the out of control situations. It is assumed that a process starts as a natural pattern and then may undergo only one out of control pattern at a time. The performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated by measuring the probability of success in identifying the three basic patterns accurately, and comparing these results with previous research work. The comparison showed that the proposed algorithm realized better identification than others.
基金Supported bv the Commission of Science,Technology and Industry for National Defence of China.
文摘The statistical process control techniques used in flexible manufacturing systems arestudied in this paper.Control charts which can be used in the low volume production are pro-posed.The automatic recognizer of unnatural patterns for the control chart by using back-propagation neural network is also presented.