Identifying change point of a non-random pattern on control chart using artificial neural networks

An important step in root cause analysis is the identification of the time when process first changed. The time when a disturbance first manifested itself into the process is referred to as change point. Identification of the change point could help process engineer to perform root cause analysis effectively. In this paper, an estimator for the change point of a normal process mean using artificial neural network (ANN) is proposed. Five patterns of change namely single step, linear trend, systematic, cyclic, and mixture are studied. Whenever possible, results are compared numerically to the results obtained by other methods proposed by different researchers. First the type of change to be recognized by an ANN-based pattern recognizer is identified and then the change point in the process mean is estimated. Results indicate satisfactory performance for the proposed method that could be used as an effective method for root cause analysis by process engineer.

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