Real-time manufacturing process monitoring using GRU with PSO algorithm
摘要
Process monitoring plays a vital role in controlling manufacturing processes and ensuring product quality by enabling early detection of process shifts. This study proposes a novel multivariate monitoring method that integrates a stacked gated recurrent unit (S-GRU) with a self-adaptive particle swarm optimization (PSO) called S-GRU-PSO. In this framework, PSO is employed to automatically optimize hyperparameters of the S-GRU architecture, enhancing its learning capability and adaptability. The proposed model was evaluated using synthetic datasets with both normal and non-normal (gamma) distributions across various data dimensions and shift magnitudes. It was also validated on a real-world wine production dataset to assess its industrial applicability. Comparative experiments were conducted against benchmark monitoring methods, including distance-based support vector machine (D-SVM), random forest with real-time contrast (RF-RTC), D-SVM optimized by differential evolution (D-SVM-DE), Stacked long short-term memory (S-LSTM), and stacked gated recurrent unit (S-GRU). The results demonstrate that the S-GRU-PSO model achieves superior performance, with a 26.9% improvement in shift detection for normal data, 11.35% for gamma-distributed data, and 16.6% for the wine dataset, as measured by reductions in average run length (