Fractals everywhere
Fractal image compression
C4.5: programs for machine learning
C4.5: programs for machine learning
Information Visualization and Visual Data Mining
IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics
Fast Algorithms for Mining Association Rules in Large Databases
VLDB '94 Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Mining manufacturing data using genetic algorithm-based feature set decomposition
International Journal of Intelligent Systems Technologies and Applications
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Improving manufacturing quality is an important challenge in various industrial settings. Data mining methods mostly approach this challenge by examining the effect of operation settings on product quality. We analyze the impact of operational sequences on product quality. For this purpose, we propose a novel method for visual analysis and classification of operational sequences. The suggested framework is based on an Iterated Function System (IFS), for producing a fractal representation of manufacturing processes. We demonstrate our method with a software application for visual analysis of quality-related data. The proposed method offers production engineers an effective tool for visual detection of operational sequence patterns influencing product quality, and requires no understanding of mathematical or statistical algorithms. Moreover, it enables to detect faulty operational sequence patterns of any length, without predefining the sequence pattern length. It also enables to visually distinguish between different faulty operational sequence patterns in cases of recurring operations within a production route. Our proposed method provides another significant added value by enabling the visual detection of rare and missing operational sequences per product quality measure. We demonstrate cases in which previous methods fail to provide these capabilities.