Analyzing Machine Performance Using Data Mining

This paper focuses on analysis of machine performance in a manufacturing company. Machine behavior can be complex, because it usually consists of many tasks. Performance of these tasks depends on product attributes, worker's speed, and therefore, analysis is not simple. Performance analysis results can be used for different purposes. Prediction and description are typical products of data mining. Prediction should be used for online monitoring of the manufactory process and as an input for a scheduler. Description can serve as information for managers to know which attributes of products cause problems more frequently. However manufacturing processes are complex, every process is quite unique. Our long term goal is to generalize the most common patterns to build general analyzer. This task is not simple because the lack of real word data and information. Therefore this work may contribute to the other researchers in their understanding of real world manufacturing problems.