An approach to monitoring quality in manufacturing using supervised machine learning on product state data

T Wuest, C Irgens, KD Thoben - Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing, 2014 - Springer
Increasing market demand towards higher product and process quality and efficiency forces
companies to think of new and innovative ways to optimize their production. In the area of …

A review of statistical methods for quality improvement and control in nanotechnology

JC Lu, SL Jeng, K Wang - Journal of Quality Technology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Nanotechnology has received a considerable amount of attention from various fields and
has become a multidisciplinary subject, where several research ventures have taken place …

Monitoring profiles based on nonparametric regression methods

C Zou, F Tsung, Z Wang - Technometrics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The use statistical process control (SPC) in monitoring and diagnosis of process and product
quality profiles remains an important problem in various manufacturing industries. The SPC …

System monitoring with real-time contrasts

H Deng, G Runger, E Tuv - Journal of Quality Technology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
Monitoring real-time data steams is an important learning task in numerous disciplines.
Traditional process-monitoring techniques are challenged by increasingly complex, high …

Functional quantitative and qualitative models for quality modeling in a fused deposition modeling process

H Sun, PK Rao, ZJ Kong, X Deng… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Additive manufacturing (AM) enables flexible part geometry and functionality, and reduces
product development life cycle by direct layer-wise fabrication from CAD files. In the last …

Nonparametric control chart for monitoring profiles using change point formulation and adaptive smoothing

C Zou, P Qiu, D Hawkins - Statistica Sinica, 2009 - JSTOR
In many applications, quality of a process is best characterized by a functional relationship
between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables. Profile monitoring is …

QQ models: Joint modeling for quantitative and qualitative quality responses in manufacturing systems

X Deng, R Jin - Technometrics, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
A manufacturing system with both quantitative and qualitative (QQ) quality responses (as a
QQ system) is widely encountered in many cases. For example, in a lapping process of the …

Integrated operation planning and process adjustment for optimum cost with attention to manufacturing quality and waste

Y Wang, J Liu, L Zhou, L Cong… - Journal of Manufacturing …, 2024 - Elsevier
Operation planning and process adjustment are two important aspects of manufacturing
operations that can have a significant impact on the performance of a manufacturing system …

Bayesian robust parameter design for ordered response

S Yang, J Wang, Y Tu - International Journal of Production …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Due to the nature of the quality characteristics, or there is no instrument available to
measure the characteristics of interest, ordered data, eg 1 (poor), 2 (satisfactory), 3 (good) …

Reinforcement learning for process control with application in semiconductor manufacturing

Y Li, J Du, W Jiang - IISE Transactions, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Process control is widely discussed in the manufacturing process, especially in
semiconductor manufacturing. Due to unavoidable disturbances in manufacturing, different …