scholarly journals Nonlinear Profile Monitoring Using Spline Functions

Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1588
Author(s):  
Hua Xin ◽  
Wan-Ju Hsieh ◽  
Yuhlong Lio ◽  
Tzong-Ru Tsai

In this study, two new integrated control charts, named T2-MAE chart and MS-MAE chart, are introduced for monitoring the quality of a process when the mathematical form of nonlinear profile model for quality measure is complicated and unable to be specified. The T2-MAE chart is composed of two memoryless-type control charts and the MS-MAE chart is composed of one memory-type and one memoryless-type control charts. The normality assumption of error terms in the nonlinear profile model for both proposed control charts are extended to a generalized model. An intensive simulation study is conducted to evaluate the performance of the T2-MAE and MS-MAE charts. Simulation results show that the MS-MAE chart outperforms the T2-MAE chart with less false alarms during the Phase I monitoring. Moreover, the MS-MAE chart is sensitive to different shifts on the model parameters and profile shape during the Phase II monitoring. An example about the vertical density profile is used for illustration.

2018 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
Suzana Paula Gomes Fernando da Silva Lampreia ◽  
José Fernando Gomes Requeijo ◽  
José António Mendonça Dias ◽  
Valter Martins Vairinhos ◽  
Patrícia Isabel Soares Barbosa

Purpose The application of condition-based maintenance on selected equipment can allow online monitoring using fixed, half-fixed or portable sensors. The collected data not always allow a straightforward interpretation and many false alarms can happen. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach Statistical techniques can be used to perform early failure detection. With the application of Cumulative Sum (CUSUM) Modified Charts and the Exponentially Weighted Moving Average (EWMA) Charts, special causes of variation can be detected online and during the equipment functioning. Before applying these methods, it is important to check data for independence. When the independence condition is not verified, data should be modeled with an ARIMA (p, d, q) model. Parameters estimation is obtained using the Shewhart Traditional Charts. Findings With data monitoring and statistical methods, it is possible to detect any system or equipment failure trend, so that we can act at the right time to avoid catastrophic failures. Originality/value In this work, an electro pump condition is monitored. Through this process, an anomaly and four stages of aggravation are forced, and the CUSUM and EWMA modified control charts are applied to test an online equipment monitoring. When the detection occurs, the methodology will have rules to define the degree of intervention.


Mathematics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (9) ◽  
pp. 1497
Author(s):  
Saber Ali ◽  
Zameer Abbas ◽  
Hafiz Zafar Nazir ◽  
Muhammad Riaz ◽  
Xingfa Zhang ◽  
...  

Statistical process control (SPC) tools are used for the investigation and identification of unnatural variations in the manufacturing, industrial, and service processes. The control chart, the basic and the most famous tool of SPC, is used for process monitoring. Generally, control charts are constructed under normality assumption of the quality characteristic of interest, but in practice, it is quite hard to hold the normality assumption. In such situations, parametric charts tend to offer more frequent false alarms and invalid out-of-control performance. To rectify these problems, non-parametric control charts are used, as these have the same in-control run length properties for all the continuous distributions and are known as in-control robust. This study intends to develop a new non-parametric exponentially weighted moving average (NPEWMA) chart based on sign statistics under a ranked set sampling scheme that is hereafter named (NPREWMA-SN). The run-length profiles of the NPREWMA-SN chart are computed using the Monte Carlo simulation method. The proposed scheme is compared with NPEWMA-SN and classical EWMA-X¯ charts, using different run length measures. The comparison reveals the in-control robustness and superiority of the proposed scheme over its competitors in detecting all kinds of shifts in the process location. A practical application related to the substrate manufacturing process is included to show the demonstration of the proposed chart.


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 (1) ◽  
pp. 331-338 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jérémie Gerhardt ◽  
Michael E. Miller ◽  
Hyunjin Yoo ◽  
Tara Akhavan

In this paper we discuss a model to estimate the power consumption and lifetime (LT) of an OLED display based on its pixel value and the brightness setting of the screen (scbr). This model is used to illustrate the effect of OLED aging on display color characteristics. Model parameters are based on power consumption measurement of a given display for a number of pixel and scbr combinations. OLED LT is often given for the most stressful display operating situation, i.e. white image at maximum scbr, but having the ability to predict the LT for other configurations can be meaningful to estimate the impact and quality of new image processing algorithms. After explaining our model we present a use case to illustrate how we use it to evaluate the impact of an image processing algorithm for brightness adaptation.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 460 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mahdi Rezapour ◽  
Khaled Ksaibati

There is growing interest in implementation of the mixed model to account for heterogeneity across population observations. However, it has been argued that the assumption of independent and identically distributed (i.i.d) error terms might not be realistic, and for some observations the scale of the error is greater than others. Consequently, that might result in the error terms’ scale to be varied across those observations. As the standard mixed model could not account for the aforementioned attribute of the observations, extended model, allowing for scale heterogeneity, has been proposed to relax the equal error terms across observations. Thus, in this study we extended the mixed model to the model with heterogeneity in scale, or generalized multinomial logit model (GMNL), to see if accounting for the scale heterogeneity, by adding more flexibility to the distribution, would result in an improvement in the model fit. The study used the choice data related to wearing seat belt across front-seat passengers in Wyoming, with all attributes being individual-specific. The results highlighted that although the effect of the scale parameter was significant, the scale effect was trivial, and accounting for the effect at the cost of added parameters would result in a loss of model fit compared with the standard mixed model. Besides considering the standard mixed and the GMNL, the models with correlated random parameters were considered. The results highlighted that despite having significant correlation across the majority of the random parameters, the goodness of fits favors more parsimonious models with no correlation. The results of this study are specific to the dataset used in this study, and due to the possible fact that the heterogeneity in observations related to the front-seat passengers seat belt use might not be extreme, and do not require extra layer to account for the scale heterogeneity, or accounting for the scale heterogeneity at the cost of added parameters might not be required. Extensive discussion has been made in the content of this paper about the model parameters’ estimations and the mathematical formulation of the methods.


Author(s):  
Charchit Kumar ◽  
Alejandro Palacios ◽  
Venkata A. Surapaneni ◽  
Georg Bold ◽  
Marc Thielen ◽  
...  

The surfaces of animals, plants and abiotic structures are not only important for organismal survival, but they have also inspired countless biomimetic and industrial applications. Additionally, the surfaces of animals and plants exhibit an unprecedented level of diversity, and animals often move on the surface of plants. Replicating these surfaces offers a number of advantages, such as preserving a surface that is likely to degrade over time, controlling for non-structural aspects of surfaces, such as compliance and chemistry, and being able to produce large areas of a small surface. In this paper, we compare three replication techniques among a number of species of plants, a technical surface and a rock. We then use two model parameters (cross-covariance function ratio and relative topography difference) to develop a unique method for quantitatively evaluating the quality of the replication. Finally, we outline future directions that can employ highly accurate surface replications, including ecological and evolutionary studies, biomechanical experiments, industrial applications and improving haptic properties of bioinspired surfaces. The recent advances associated with surface replication and imaging technology have formed a foundation on which to incorporate surface information into biological sciences and to improve industrial and biomimetic applications. This article is part of the theme issue ‘Bioinspired materials and surfaces for green science and technology’.


Author(s):  
Hourieh Foroutan ◽  
Amirhossein Amiri ◽  
Reza Kamranrad

In most statistical process control (SPC) applications, quality of a process or product is monitored by univariate or multivariate control charts. However, sometimes a functional relationship between a response variable and one or more explanatory variables is established and monitored over time. This relationship is called “profile” in SPC literature. In this paper, we specifically consider processes with compositional data responses, including multivariate positive observations summing to one. The relationship between compositional data responses and explanatory variables is modeled by a Dirichlet regression profile. We develop a monitoring procedure based on likelihood ratio test (lrt) for Phase I monitoring of Dirichlet regression profiles. Then, we compare the performance of the proposed method with the best method in the literature in terms of probability of signal. The results of simulation studies show that the proposed control chart has better performance in Phase I monitoring than the competing control chart. Moreover, the proposed method is able to estimate the real time of a change as well. The performance of this feature is also investigated through simulation runs which show the satisfactory performance. Finally, the application of the proposed method is illustrated based on a real case in comparison with the existing method.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Zhenggang Wang ◽  
Jin Jin

Remote sensing image segmentation provides technical support for decision making in many areas of environmental resource management. But, the quality of the remote sensing images obtained from different channels can vary considerably, and manually labeling a mass amount of image data is too expensive and Inefficiently. In this paper, we propose a point density force field clustering (PDFC) process. According to the spectral information from different ground objects, remote sensing superpixel points are divided into core and edge data points. The differences in the densities of core data points are used to form the local peak. The center of the initial cluster can be determined by the weighted density and position of the local peak. An iterative nebular clustering process is used to obtain the result, and a proposed new objective function is used to optimize the model parameters automatically to obtain the global optimal clustering solution. The proposed algorithm can cluster the area of different ground objects in remote sensing images automatically, and these categories are then labeled by humans simply.


1998 ◽  
Vol 120 (3) ◽  
pp. 489-495 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. J. Hu ◽  
Y. G. Liu

Autocorrelation in 100 percent measurement data results in false alarms when the traditional control charts, such as X and R charts, are applied in process monitoring. A popular approach proposed in the literature is based on prediction error analysis (PEA), i.e., using time series models to remove the autocorrelation, and then applying the control charts to the residuals, or prediction errors. This paper uses a step function type mean shift as an example to investigate the effect of prediction error analysis on the speed of mean shift detection. The use of PEA results in two changes in the 100 percent measurement data: (1) change in the variance, and (2) change in the magnitude of the mean shift. Both changes affect the speed of mean shift detection. These effects are model parameter dependent and are obtained quantitatively for AR(1) and ARMA(2,1) models. Simulations and examples from automobile body assembly processes are used to demonstrate these effects. It is shown that depending on the parameters of the AMRA models, the speed of detection could be increased or decreased significantly.


Analytical approximations for the price of a convertible bond within defaultable Markov diffusion models are derived in this article. Because convertible bond pricing requires time-consuming finite difference or tree pricing methods in general, such proxy formulas can help to calibrate model parameters more efficiently. The derivation is based on the idea of “Europeanizing” the American conversion option of the holder. Hence, the quality of the approximations stands and falls with the value of the early conversion premium. In practice, the latter is typically close to zero, which implies that the analytical lower bounds are incredibly sharp.


2021 ◽  
Vol 314 ◽  
pp. 05002
Author(s):  
Hasna Moumni ◽  
Karima Sebari ◽  
Laila Stour ◽  
Abdellatif Ahbari

The availability, accessibility and quality of data are significant obstacles to hydrological modelling. Estimating the initial values of the hydrological model´’ ’s parameters is a laborious and determining task requiring much attention. Geographic information systems (GIS) and spatial remote sensing are prometting tools for processing and collecting data. In this work, we use an innovative approach to estimate the HEC-HMS hydrological model parameters from the soil map of Africa (250m), the land use map GLC30, the depth to bedrock map, the digital elevation model and observed flow data. The estimation approach is applied to the Ouergha basin (Sebou, Morocco). The proposed approach’s interest is to feed the HEC-HMS hydrological model with initial values of parameters close to the study area reality instead of using random parameters.


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