7 posts tagged with "manufacturing"

Abstract

Maintaining product quality is essential for smart factories, hence detecting abnormal events in assembly line is important for timely decision-making. This study proposes an affordable fast early warning system based on edge computing to detect abnormal events during assembly line. The proposed model obtains environmental data from various sensors including gyroscopes, accelerometers, temperature, humidity, ambient light, and air quality. The fault model is installed close to the facilities, so abnormal events can be timely detected. Several performance evaluations are conducted to obtain the optimal scenario for utilizing edge devices to improve data processing and analysis speed, and the final proposed model provides the highest accuracy in terms of detecting abnormal events compared to other classification models. The proposed model was tested over four months of operation in a Korean automobile parts factory, and provided significant benefits from monitoring assembly line, as well as classifying abnormal events. The model helped improve decision-making by reducing or preventing unexpected losses due to abnormal events.

Published in: Applied Sciences
DOI: 10.3390/app9010084

Abstract

With the increase in the amount of data captured during the manufacturing process, monitoring systems are becoming important factors in decision making for management. Current technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT)-based sensors can be considered a solution to provide efficient monitoring of the manufacturing process. In this study, a real-time monitoring system that utilizes IoT-based sensors, big data processing, and a hybrid prediction model is proposed. Firstly, an IoT-based sensor that collects temperature, humidity, accelerometer, and gyroscope data was developed. The characteristics of IoT-generated sensor data from the manufacturing process are: real-time, large amounts, and unstructured type. The proposed big data processing platform utilizes Apache Kafka as a message queue, Apache Storm as a real-time processing engine and MongoDB to store the sensor data from the manufacturing process. Secondly, for the proposed hybrid prediction model, Density-Based Spatial Clustering of Applications with Noise (DBSCAN)-based outlier detection and Random Forest classification were used to remove outlier sensor data and provide fault detection during the manufacturing process, respectively. The proposed model was evaluated and tested at an automotive manufacturing assembly line in Korea. The results showed that IoT-based sensors and the proposed big data processing system are sufficiently efficient to monitor the manufacturing process. Furthermore, the proposed hybrid prediction model has better fault prediction accuracy than other models given the sensor data as input. The proposed system is expected to support management by improving decision-making and will help prevent unexpected losses caused by faults during the manufacturing process.

Published in: Sensors
DOI: 10.3390/s18092946

Abstract

To make manufacturers more competitive, there is a need to integrate advanced computing and cyber-physical systems to take advantage of the current technologies. With the advent of smart sensors such as IoT technologies (1), collecting data has become a simple task, but the question remains if these devices or data provide the right information for the right purpose at the right time. Data is not useful unless it is processed in a way that provides context and meaning that can be understood by the right personnel. Just connecting sensors to a machine or connecting a machine to another machine will not give users the insights needed to make better decisions. Thus, in this paper we proposed the real time monitoring system that utilized machine learning algorithm to predict the quality of product based on sensor data that was gathered by IoT device and showed the result in real time.

Published in: KSMTE Annual Autumn Conference 2017
Link: http://www.dbpia.co.kr/Journal/ArticleDetail/NODE07285510