A general probability-forecasting framework for final product quality of complex processes

There are several complex processes in the whole production cycle of some industrial products. Usually these complex processes require complicated production technics since the products cannot be processed in a batch manner. In this sense, it is difficult to control the ratio of each final quality level. To eliminate this effect in predicting the final quality level of products with several complex processes, a general probability-forecasting framework is proposed based on the support vector machine (SVM) model. In our framework, we first develop a model for SVM classification based on a two-phase heuristic method improved for SVM parameter optimization, and then an online probabilistic prediction model of each final quality level and a cost analysis scheme are presented respectively. Based on the proposed framework, our simulation experiment demonstrates the effectiveness of the improved SVM model in predicting the probabilities of final quality level of multi-processes and reducing the production cost of the whole process.