Neural network design and feature selection using principal component analysis and Taguchi method for identifying wood veneer defects

Yuce, Baris ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9937-1535, Mastrocinque, Ernesto, Packianather, Michael Sylvester ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9436-8206, Pham, Duc, Lambiase, Alfredo and Fruggiero, Fabio 2014. Neural network design and feature selection using principal component analysis and Taguchi method for identifying wood veneer defects. Production & Manufacturing Research: An Open Access Journal 2 (1) , pp. 291-308. 10.1080/21693277.2014.892442

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Abstract

Nowadays, ensuring high quality can be considered the main strength for a company’s success. Especially, in a period of economic recession, quality control is crucial from the operational and strategic point of view. There are different quality control methods and it has been proven that on the whole companies using a continuous improvement approach, eliminating waste and maximizing productive flow, are more efficient and produce more with lower costs. This paper presents a method to optimize the quality control stage for a wood manufacturing firm. The method is based on the employment of the principal component analysis in order to reduce the number of critical variables to be given as input for an artificial neural network (ANN) to identify wood veneer defects. The proposed method allows the ANN classifier to identify defects in real time and increase the response speed during the quality control stage so that veneers with defects do not pass through the whole production cycle but are rejected at the beginning.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering
Subjects:	T Technology > TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
ISSN:	2169-3277
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	30 March 2016
Last Modified:	11 May 2023 00:26
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/59870

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