Advances in Manufacturing ›› 2017, Vol. 5 ›› Issue (4): 321-334.doi: 10.1007/s40436-017-0205-6

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Thinking process rules extraction for manufacturing process design

Jing-Tao Zhou1, Xiang-Qian Li2, Ming-Wei Wang1, Rui Niu1, Qing Xu1   

  1. 1 Key Laboratory of Contemporary Design and Integrated Manufacturing Technology, Ministry of Education of China, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, People's Republic of China;
    2 Department of Software and Information Service Research, Electronic Technology Information Research Institute, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People's Republic of China, Beijing 100040, People's Republic of China
  • Received:2017-07-04 Revised:2017-11-13 Online:2017-12-25 Published:2017-12-25
  • Contact: Jing-Tao Zhou,E-mail:zhoujt@nwpu.edu.cn E-mail:zhoujt@nwpu.edu.cn
  • Supported by:

    The work was supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program (Grant No.2015BAF17B01).

Abstract:

To realize the reuse of process design knowledge and improve the efficiency and quality of process design, a method for extracting thinking process rules for process design is proposed. An instance representation model of the process planning reflecting the thinking process of technicians is established to achieve an effective representation of the process documents. The related process attributes are extracted from the model to form the related events. The manifold learning algorithm and clustering analysis are used to preprocess the process instance data. A rule extraction mechanism of process design is introduced, which is based on the related events after dimension reduction and clustering, and uses the association rule mining algorithm to realize the similar process information extraction in the same cluster. Through the vectorization description of the related events, the final process design rules are formed. Finally, an example is given to evaluate the method of process design rules extraction.

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Key words: Process design rules, Process design rules extraction, Process planning model, Related event, Manifold learning