Quality Inspection with Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detector and Self-Organizing Map

This paper describes two methods for the industrial quality inspection: Supervised classification algorithm Chi-Square Automatic Interaction Detector (CHAID) and unsupervised clustering algorithm Self-Organizing Map (SOM). The classification and clustering are modelled in IBM software SPSS. Models’ functioning is illustrated on a wheel assembly geometric features inspection. The classifying accuracies are compared for the two methods. CHAID has shown better classifying ability than SOM, while SOM can be used to improve quality of predictor values, and therefore classifiers accuracy.