An extended model for remaining time prediction in manufacturing systems using process mining

Abstract The ability to predict the remaining cycle-time in industrial environments is of major concern among production managers. An accurate prediction would enable managers to handle undesired situations with more control, thereby preventing future losses. However, making such predictions is no trivial task: there are many methods available to cope with this problem, including a recent research stream in process mining. Process mining provides tools for automated discovery of process models from event logs, and eventually, extend those models in driving predictions. In general, predictive models in process mining generally deals with business processes, and not directly with the industrial environment, which contains a full prism of particularities. In this paper we propose a hybrid predictive model based on transition-systems and statistical regression which is “product-oriented”, tailored to better predict online cycle-times on industrial environments. We propose a weight for each method, optimized by a linear programming model. We tested our new approach on an artificially created log that emulates an industrial environment, and on a real manufacture log. Results showed that our approach provides better accuracy measures for both test instances.