26–30 Jun 2022
Europe/Berlin timezone

Process Optimization from Historical Data in Industry 4.0

29 Jun 2022, 10:40
20m
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Speaker

Sergio García Carrión (Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV))

Description

Design of experiments (DOE) [1], the key tool in the Six Sigma methodology, provides causal empirical models that allow process understanding and optimization. However, in the Industry 4.0 era, it may be difficult to carry them out, if not unfeasible, due to the generally high number of potential factors involved, and the complex aliasing [2]. Nevertheless, nowadays, large amounts of historical data, which usually present some unplanned excitations, are available in most production processes.

In this context, two approaches are proposed for process optimization. One is a retrospective fitting of a design of experiments (Reverse-DOE) to available data [3]. The second approach is by inverting Partial Least Squares (PLS) models [4]. Since latent variable models provide uniqueness and causality in the latent space, they are suitable for process optimization no matter where the data come from [4, 5].

The proposed approaches were applied to some datasets with different characteristics, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each one. Both are expected to be useful in the early stages when nothing is known about the process, driving subsequent real experimentation.

[1] G. E. P. Box, W. H. Hunter, and S. Hunter, Statistics for experimenters, Wiley, 2005.
[2] A. Ferrer, Qual. Eng., 33(4):758–763, 2021.
[3] C. Loy, T. N. Goh, and M. Xie, Total Qual. Manag., 13(5):589–602, 2002.
[4] C.M. Jaeckle, and J. F. MacGregor. Chemom. Intell. Lab. Syst., 50(2):199–210, 2000.
[5] D. Palací-López, J. Borràs-Ferrís, L. T. da Silva de Oliveria, and A. Ferrer, Processes, 8:1119, 2020.

Keywords DOE, PLS, Historical Data

Primary author

Sergio García Carrión (Universitat Politècnica de València (UPV))

Co-authors

Joan Borràs-Ferrís (Universitat Politècnica de València) Alberto Ferrer (Universitat Politècnica de València)

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