A Bayesian information fusion approach for end product quality estimation using machine learning and on-machine probing

Moschos Papananias*, Thomas E. McLeay, Mahdi Mahfouf, Visakan Kadirkamanathan

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    Abstract

    There is an increasing demand for manufacturing processes to improve product quality and production rates while minimising the costs. The quality of the products is influenced by several sources of errors introduced during the series of manufacturing operations. These errors accumulate over these multiple stages of manufacturing. Therefore, monitoring systems for product health utilising data and information from different sources and manufacturing stages is a key factor to meet these growing demands. This paper addresses the process of combining new measurement data or information with machine learning-based prediction information obtained as each product goes through a series of manufacturing steps to update the conditional probability distribution of the end product quality during manufacturing. A Bayesian approach is adopted in obtaining an updated posterior distribution of the end product quality given new information from subsequent measurements, and, in particular, On-Machine Probing (OMP). Following the steps of heat treatment, machining, and OMP, the posterior distribution of the previous step can be considered as the new prior distribution to obtain an updated posterior distribution of the product condition as new metrological information becomes available. It is demonstrated that the resulting posterior estimates can lead to more efficient product condition monitoring in multistage manufacturing.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)475-485
    Number of pages11
    JournalJournal of Manufacturing Processes
    Volume76
    Early online date25 Feb 2022
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 1 Apr 2022

    Keywords

    • Bayesian inference
    • information fusion
    • machine learning
    • multistage manufacturing process (MMP)
    • on-machine probing (OMP)
    • uncertainty of measurement
    • UKRI
    • EPSRC
    • EP/P006930/1

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