Deep Vision in Smart Manufacturing: MODERN Framework for Intelligent Quality Monitoring and Diagnosis

Abstract:Smart manufacturing processes are often installed with a large number of sensors, imaging devices and computers, which not only enable instant communication across various modules of a production system but also aid in intelligent manufacturing management. In this paper, we introduce MODERN, a deep learning framework for quality monitoring and fault isolation, which integrates these enhanced capabilities into the practice of industrial quality control. Using the architecture of an inception residual neural network, we develop a control chart that monitors the likelihood of a product containing defects. We also propose a faulty region estimator that identifies the defective area using transfer learning. To extend our framework to cases where there are not sufficient training data, we suggest a transfer monitoring technique that requires only a small sample size and a hypothesis testing approach for quantitatively assessing the applicability of our method. Theoretically, we establish the minimax optimal convergence rate for both our defect likelihood estimation and fault diagnosis. Our results lead to a seemingly counter-intuitive managerial implication - it may not always be in a manufacturer's best interests to keep upgrading its monitoring equipment regardless of the cost. Empirically, we demonstrate the superior performance of our method in comparison with a state-of-the-art approach using both simulated experiments and real data.

Machine Learning (stat.ML); Machine Learning (cs.LG)

arXiv:2608.13937 [stat.ML]

(or arXiv:2608.13937v1 [stat.ML] for this version)

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.13937 Focus to learn more arXiv-issued DOI via DataCite (pending registration)

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