{"title":"Contextual anomaly detection for multivariate time series data","authors":"Hyojoon Kim, Heeyoung Kim","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2023.2179404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2023.2179404","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With the advancement of sensing technologies, sensor data collected over time have become more useful for detecting anomalies in underlying processes and systems. Sensor data are often affected by contextual variables, such as equipment settings, and can have different patterns, even in normal states depending on the contextual variables. Motivated by this problem, we propose a contextual anomaly detection method for multivariate time series data. We first build a prediction model using training data consisting of only normal observations, and then perform anomaly detection based on the prediction errors for future observations. The prediction model is based on a long short-term memory (LSTM) network that can flexibly model complex relationships between variables as well as temporal correlations between successive time points using the high expressive power of deep recurrent neural networks. In particular, to incorporate the contextual information while ensuring that it does not propagate over time but affects the response data only at specific target time points, we extend the standard LSTM by adding a layer for the contextual variables separately for each time step. The performance of the proposed method was verified with several open-source datasets and a real dataset from a global tire company.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"686 - 695"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48897207","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Remembering George EP Box in Quality Quandaries: great ideas, practical advice, clearly presented","authors":"Pere Grima, L. Marco-Almagro, X. Tort-Martorell","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2023.2179924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2023.2179924","url":null,"abstract":"Quality Quandaries editor’s note: After two years and eight QQ articles, I’m stepping down as editor of this section. I’m grateful to Markus Perry and David Edwards, the former and current editors of QE, for giving me the opportunity. It has been a privilege and a pleasure. It is also a pleasure to dedicate this last Quandary to honor George Box, the initiator of the section, on the tenth anniversary of his death.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"547 - 551"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49071117","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Darío G. Lema, Oscar D. Pedrayes, R. Usamentiaga, D. García
{"title":"Improved detection of subsurface defects through active thermography and ensembling techniques","authors":"Darío G. Lema, Oscar D. Pedrayes, R. Usamentiaga, D. García","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2023.2177871","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2023.2177871","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Quality control and defect detection are major challenges in industrial environments. The localization of these defects is of crucial importance, as they can affect the performance of manufactured products and even the safety of people. Defect detection methods based on visual sensors and image processing are nowadays the most common approaches. To detect subsurface defects it is common to combine active thermography and deep learning. In this paper, PCT (Principal Components Thermography) is employed to enhance the SNR (signal-to-noise ratio), leading to a significant improvement in the results. Recent developments in this field apply deep learning models for semantic segmentation and object detection. However, the quality of the predictions is not enough to ensure that all quality controls are met. In this paper, a combination of semantic segmentation and object detection is proposed to increase the reliability of predictions. To carry out this combination, a working methodology and two new ensembling strategies are proposed. After comparing the results of the proposed combination with the results of using only semantic segmentation methods in a real industrial scenario, where carbon fiber sheets are used, it is found that the proposal improves the segmentation metrics by a 5% to a 24%. Thus the reliability of the predictions is improved.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"669 - 685"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44706244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Data-driven maintenance priority recommendations for civil aircraft engine fleets using reliability-based bivariate cluster analysis","authors":"Hang Zhou, A. Parlikad, A. Brintrup","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2022.2163179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2022.2163179","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The modern civil aircraft engine is a type of highly complex engineering system in design, manufacturing, and life-cycle management. They are constantly operated under extreme and critical conditions, and yet, high reliability and safety are top priorities in the civil aviation industry. To ensure top performance and efficiency in operations, engines follow a modular design. This article intends to apply the data-driven cluster analysis to real-life operation data for aircraft engine fleets, which provides a module maintenance priority recommendation solution to increase the efficiency of operations and best use of the engine values.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"584 - 599"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45021263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hussam Ahmad, Adel Ahmadi Nadi, Mohammad Amini, B. Sadeghpour Gildeh
{"title":"Monitoring processes with multiple dependent production lines using time between events control charts","authors":"Hussam Ahmad, Adel Ahmadi Nadi, Mohammad Amini, B. Sadeghpour Gildeh","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2023.2169161","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2023.2169161","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article develops Time Between Events (TBE) control charts to monitor processes with multiple dependent production lines. To this end, a Shewhart-type and an EWMA-type TBE chart have been proposed. The copula approach is used to describe the dependence between production lines and the homogeneous Poisson process is considered to model the number of defectives. Performance of the proposed methods is evaluated using average time to signal metric. The numerical study showed that the EWMA-TBE chart uniformly performs better than the Shewhart-type chart. Eventually, the EWMA-TBE chart is applied to monitor two real-world processes with two and four production lines.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"639 - 668"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48362310","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An approach to non-homogenous phase-type distributions through multiple cut-points","authors":"J. E. Ruiz-Castro, Christian Acal, J. Roldán","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2023.2168202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2023.2168202","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract A new class of distributions based on phase-type distributions is introduced in the current paper to model lifetime data in the field of reliability analysis. This one is the natural extension of the distribution proposed by Acal et al. (One cut-point phase-type distributions in reliability. An application to resistive random access memories. Mathematics 9(21):2734, 2021) for more than one cut-point. Multiple interesting measures such as density function, hazard rate or moments, among others, were worked out both for the continuous and discrete case. Besides, a new EM-algorithm is provided to estimate the parameters by maximum likelihood. The results have been implemented computationally in R and simulation studies reveal that this new distribution reduces the number of parameters to be estimated in the optimization process and, in addition, it improves the fitting accuracy in comparison with the classical phase-type distributions, especially in heavy tailed distributions. An application is presented in the context of resistive memories with a new set of electron devices for nonvolatile memory circuits. In particular, the voltage associated with the resistive switching processes that control the internal behavior of resistive memories has been modeled with this new distribution to shed light on the physical mechanisms behind the operation of these memories.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"619 - 638"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59458786","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Simultaneous monitoring of the mean vector and covariance matrix of multivariate multiple linear profiles with a new adaptive Shewhart-type control chart","authors":"H. Sabahno, A. Amiri","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2022.2164725","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2022.2164725","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract There has been a growing interest in research regarding monitoring a process through a regression model (called a profile) rather than a simple quality characteristic. This paper proposes a new monitoring scheme to simultaneously monitor the multivariate multiple linear profiles’ parameters. This scheme is based on the Shewhart control chart concept and only has one single (max-type) control chart for monitoring regression coefficients and error’s variation, which uses a new statistic to improve the variability (error’s variance-covariance matrix) shift detection in multivariate profiles. To increase the sensitivity and capability of the proposed scheme, especially in detecting small to moderate shift sizes, we add a variable parameters (VP) adaptive scheme to the developed control chart as well, considering that no adaptive monitoring schemes have so far been developed for monitoring the multivariate multiple linear profiles and neither are there any VP adaptive features for all profile monitoring schemes. Next, we develop a Markov chain model to compute the time to signal and run length performance measures. After that, we perform extensive numerical analyses to first compare the proposed control chart with the best available control charts and then evaluate its performance under different shift scenarios as well as different dimensions. The results show that the new monitoring scheme performs well compared to the best available monitoring schemes, and more importantly, it is more applicable in real practice. Finally, an illustrative example is presented to show the implementation of the proposed scheme in practice.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"600 - 618"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41972869","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Leveraging what you know: Versatile space-filling designs","authors":"Lu Lu, C. Anderson‐Cook","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2022.2161394","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2022.2161394","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Space-filling designs continue to gain popularity for computer experiments. Uniformity of space-filling characteristics has been broadly sought after to provide good estimation and prediction abilities for a variety of complex models. This article presents case studies when additional information on the features of the underlying relationship may be leveraged for selecting alternative space-filling designs that offer improvements to meet specific experimental goals. Three types of nontraditional space-filling designs are illustrated to achieve different objectives to (1) allow varied density of design points across the input space, (2) obtain balanced performance on covering the input space and the range of the response values, and (3) effectively augment existing runs to achieve certain space-filling characteristic in a sequential experiment. The mechanics for implementing these design choices are described and their flexibility to adapt to other experimental scenarios is illustrated.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"566 - 583"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49248705","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Functional data analysis and nonlinear regression models: an information quality perspective","authors":"R. Kenett, C. Gotwalt","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2022.2153696","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2022.2153696","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Data from measurements over time can be analyzed in different ways. In this article, we compare functional data analysis and nonlinear regression models using, among others, eight information quality dimensions. We present two case studies. The first case study introduces functional data analysis and nonlinear regression models in analyzing dissolution profiles of drug tablets where profiles of tablets under test are compared to reference tablets. A second case study involves statistically designed mixture experiments used in optimization tablet formulation. Python and JMP features are used to demonstrate the methods used in the two case studies.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"480 - 492"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44859739","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A case study: Eliminating nuisance within-part variation in assessing a measurement system","authors":"M. Hamada, B. W. O’Brien","doi":"10.1080/08982112.2022.2088295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/08982112.2022.2088295","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In this article, we consider a gauge R & R study in which a part measured in production is randomly placed in the measuring device. In assessing a measurement system, one does not want a possible within-part variation included in the estimated gauge variation and we propose a way to eliminate it. We consider a pellet measurement system and demonstrate the benefits of eliminating within-part variation in its assessment.","PeriodicalId":20846,"journal":{"name":"Quality Engineering","volume":"35 1","pages":"165 - 171"},"PeriodicalIF":2.0,"publicationDate":"2023-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44158572","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}