Identifying cause-and-effect relationships of manufacturing errors using sequence-to-sequence learning

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Autoren

  • Jeff Reimer
  • Yandong Wang
  • Sofiane Laridi
  • Juergen Urdich
  • Sören Wilmsmeier
  • Gregory Palmer

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  • Volkswagen AG
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Aufsatznummer22332
FachzeitschriftScientific reports
Jahrgang12
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 25 Dez. 2022

Abstract

In car-body production the pre-formed sheet metal parts of the body are assembled on fully-automated production lines. The body passes through multiple stations in succession, and is processed according to the order requirements. The timely completion of orders depends on the individual station-based operations concluding within their scheduled cycle times. If an error occurs in one station, it can have a knock-on effect, resulting in delays on the downstream stations. To the best of our knowledge, there exist no methods for automatically distinguishing between source and knock-on errors in this setting, as well as establishing a causal relation between them. Utilizing real-time information about conditions collected by a production data acquisition system, we propose a novel vehicle manufacturing analysis system, which uses deep learning to establish a link between source and knock-on errors. We benchmark three sequence-to-sequence models, and introduce a novel composite time-weighted action metric for evaluating models in this context. We evaluate our framework on a real-world car production dataset recorded by Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles. Surprisingly we find that 71.68% of sequences contain either a source or knock-on error. With respect to seq2seq model training, we find that the Transformer demonstrates a better performance compared to LSTM and GRU in this domain, in particular when the prediction range with respect to the durations of future actions is increased.

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Identifying cause-and-effect relationships of manufacturing errors using sequence-to-sequence learning. / Reimer, Jeff; Wang, Yandong; Laridi, Sofiane et al.
in: Scientific reports, Jahrgang 12, 22332, 25.12.2022.

Publikation: Beitrag in FachzeitschriftArtikelForschungPeer-Review

Reimer J, Wang Y, Laridi S, Urdich J, Wilmsmeier S, Palmer G. Identifying cause-and-effect relationships of manufacturing errors using sequence-to-sequence learning. Scientific reports. 2022 Dez 25;12:22332. doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2205.02827, 10.1038/s41598-022-26534-y
Reimer, Jeff ; Wang, Yandong ; Laridi, Sofiane et al. / Identifying cause-and-effect relationships of manufacturing errors using sequence-to-sequence learning. in: Scientific reports. 2022 ; Jahrgang 12.
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