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Manually defined control limits remain a common strategy for quality control in manufacturing due to their ease of deployment on the shop floor compared to more advanced data analysis approaches. Despite their continued importance, there is no systematic method of defining these control limits. However, sub-optimal control limits can lead to undetected faults or cause unnecessary interruption to production. This manuscript presents an algorithm that systematizes this manual process into an efficient search task. We conceptualized the search task as a sequence of sub-problems that are based on the conventional steps taken by process experts when defining control limits. This algorithm can be integrated into an expert tool for shop floor personnel to automate the definition of control limits in annotated time series data. We demonstrate the efficacy of the control limits found by our algorithm by comparing them to those manually defined by process experts in real-world process data from the automotive industry. Furthermore, we show that our algorithm generalizes to traditional time series classification problems and achieves state-of-the-art performance on selected benchmark datasets. Our work is the first effort in automating the otherwise manual definition of control limits for fault detection.
The increasing global competition demands continuous optimization of products and processes from companies in the process industry. Where conventional methods of Lean Management and Six Sigma reach their limits, new opportunities and challenges arise through increasing connectivity in the Industrial Internet of Things and machine learning. The majority of industrial projects do not reach the deployment or are isolated solutions, as the structures for data integration, training, deployment and maintenance of models are not established. This paper presents the conception of a reference architecture for machine learning in the process industry to support companies in implementing their own specific structures. The focus is on the development process and an exemplary implementation in the brewing industry.