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An online quality monitoring tool for information acquisition and sharing in manufacturing: Requirements and solutions for the steel industry

  • Satu Tamminen*
  • , Eija Ferreira
  • , Henna Tiensuu
  • , Heli Helaakoski
  • , Vesa Kyllönen
  • , Juha Jokisaari
  • , Esa Puukko
  • , Juha Röning
  • *Corresponding author for this work
    • University of Oulu
    • Outokumpu Oyj
    • SSAB Europe Oy

    Research output: Contribution to journalArticleScientificpeer-review

    Abstract

    The purpose of this study was to develop an innovative online supervisor system to assist the operators of an industrial manufacturing process in discovering new solutions for improving both the products and the manufacturing process itself. In this paper, we discuss the requirements and practical aspects of building such a system and demonstrate its use and functioning with different types of statistical modelling methods applied for quality monitoring in industrial applications. The two case studies presenting the development work were selected from the steel industry. One case study predicting the profile of a stainless steel strip tested the usability of the tool offline, while the other study predicting the risk of roughness of a steel strip had an online test period. User experiences from a test use period were collected with a system usability scale questionnaire.

    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)291-313
    JournalInternational Journal of Industrial and Systems Engineering
    Volume33
    Issue number3
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 28 Oct 2019
    MoE publication typeA1 Journal article-refereed

    UN SDGs

    This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

    1. SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
      SDG 9 Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

    Keywords

    • Data mining
    • GBM
    • Generalised boosted regression
    • Knowledge representation
    • Online monitoring
    • Product design
    • Quality improvement
    • Smart decision support

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