Title
Mining association rules for the quality improvement of the production process
Abstract
Academics and practitioners have a common interest in the continuing development of methods and computer applications that support or perform knowledge-intensive engineering tasks. Operations management dysfunctions and lost production time are problems of enormous magnitude that impact the performance and quality of industrial systems as well as their cost of production. Association rule mining is a data mining technique used to find out useful and invaluable information from huge databases. This work develops a better conceptual base for improving the application of association rule mining methods to extract knowledge on operations and information management. The emphasis of the paper is on the improvement of the operations processes. The application example details an industrial experiment in which association rule mining is used to analyze the manufacturing process of a fully integrated provider of drilling products. The study reports some new interesting results with data mining and knowledge discovery techniques applied to a drill production process. Experiment's results on real-life data sets show that the proposed approach is useful in finding effective knowledge associated to dysfunctions causes.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1016/j.eswa.2012.08.039
Expert Syst. Appl.
Keywords
Field
DocType
data mining,quality improvement,drill production process,operations process,operations management dysfunctions,effective knowledge,association rule mining,knowledge discovery technique,mining association rule,lost production time,data mining technique,association rule mining method,knowledge discovery
Data science,Data mining,Computer science,Scheduling (production processes),Computer Applications,Artificial intelligence,Manufacturing process,Information management,Industrial systems,Association rule learning,Knowledge extraction,Quality management,Machine learning
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
4
0957-4174
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
33
1.12
40
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Bernard Kamsu-Foguem131820.94
Fabien Rigal2331.12
FéLix Mauget3331.12