A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency

Efficiency in modern manufacturing process is very crucial. Manufactures these days want to have more control over the performance of their machines. This Final Year Project aims to using machine learning techniques to predict the outcome of a certain manufacturing process in order to improve the ma...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wei, Lai
Other Authors: Er Meng Joo
Format: Final Year Project (FYP)
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60419
_version_ 1811682774140059648
author Wei, Lai
author2 Er Meng Joo
author_facet Er Meng Joo
Wei, Lai
author_sort Wei, Lai
collection NTU
description Efficiency in modern manufacturing process is very crucial. Manufactures these days want to have more control over the performance of their machines. This Final Year Project aims to using machine learning techniques to predict the outcome of a certain manufacturing process in order to improve the manufacturing efficiency. This is a joint project together with other SIMTech scientists and staff. The manufacture process studied this project is a coating process of a thin plastic substrate. A coating machine was used with two controllable inputs namely the coating material flow rate and substrate rolling speed. Normally, the thickness of coating material is difficult to control due to the limitation of the machine. In this project, machine learning methods were studied and developed to predict the coating thickness. By using the historical coating thickness data, Matlab programs were developed to predict the coating thickness. Therefore, coating thickness can be controlled and the production efficiency can be improved. Besides, physical models were also developed to predict the coating thickness and give physical explanation at the same time.
first_indexed 2024-10-01T04:02:11Z
format Final Year Project (FYP)
id ntu-10356/60419
institution Nanyang Technological University
language English
last_indexed 2024-10-01T04:02:11Z
publishDate 2014
record_format dspace
spelling ntu-10356/604192023-07-07T16:41:48Z A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency Wei, Lai Er Meng Joo School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering A*STAR SIMTech DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence Efficiency in modern manufacturing process is very crucial. Manufactures these days want to have more control over the performance of their machines. This Final Year Project aims to using machine learning techniques to predict the outcome of a certain manufacturing process in order to improve the manufacturing efficiency. This is a joint project together with other SIMTech scientists and staff. The manufacture process studied this project is a coating process of a thin plastic substrate. A coating machine was used with two controllable inputs namely the coating material flow rate and substrate rolling speed. Normally, the thickness of coating material is difficult to control due to the limitation of the machine. In this project, machine learning methods were studied and developed to predict the coating thickness. By using the historical coating thickness data, Matlab programs were developed to predict the coating thickness. Therefore, coating thickness can be controlled and the production efficiency can be improved. Besides, physical models were also developed to predict the coating thickness and give physical explanation at the same time. Bachelor of Engineering 2014-05-27T04:23:01Z 2014-05-27T04:23:01Z 2014 2014 Final Year Project (FYP) http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60419 en Nanyang Technological University 47 p. application/pdf
spellingShingle DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence
Wei, Lai
A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency
title A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency
title_full A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency
title_fullStr A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency
title_full_unstemmed A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency
title_short A systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency
title_sort systematic approach using machine learning and optimization techniques to improve manufacturing process efficiency
topic DRNTU::Engineering::Computer science and engineering::Computing methodologies::Artificial intelligence
url http://hdl.handle.net/10356/60419
work_keys_str_mv AT weilai asystematicapproachusingmachinelearningandoptimizationtechniquestoimprovemanufacturingprocessefficiency
AT weilai systematicapproachusingmachinelearningandoptimizationtechniquestoimprovemanufacturingprocessefficiency