2013 ImprovingQualityControlbyEarlyP

• (Weiss et al., 2013) ⇒ Sholom M. Weiss, Amit Dhurandhar, and Robert J. Baseman. (2013). “Improving Quality Control by Early Prediction of Manufacturing Outcomes.” In: Proceedings of the 19th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining. ISBN:978-1-4503-2174-7 doi:10.1145/2487575.2488192

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• Data mining; manufacturing; prediction; quality control

Abstract

We describe methods for continual prediction of manufactured product quality prior to final testing. In our most expansive modeling approach, an estimated final characteristic of a product is updated after each manufacturing operation. Our initial application is for the manufacture of microprocessors, and we predict final microprocessor speed. Using these predictions, early corrective manufacturing actions may be taken to increase the speed of expected slow wafers (a collection of microprocessors) or reduce the speed of fast wafers. Such predictions may also be used to initiate corrective supply chain management actions. Developing statistical learning models for this task has many complicating factors: (a) a temporally unstable population (b) missing data that is a result of sparsely sampled measurements and (c) relatively few available measurements prior to corrective action opportunities. In a real manufacturing pilot application, our automated models selected 125 fast wafers in real-time. As predicted, those wafers were significantly faster than average. During manufacture, downstream corrective processing restored 25 nominally unacceptable wafers to normal operation.

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	Author	volume	Date Value	title	type	journal	titleUrl	doi	note	year
2013 ImprovingQualityControlbyEarlyP	Sholom M. Weiss Amit Dhurandhar Robert J. Baseman			Improving Quality Control by Early Prediction of Manufacturing Outcomes				10.1145/2487575.2488192		2013