A location prediction method for work-in-process based on frequent trajectory patterns

Author(s):  
Haoshu Cai ◽  
Yu Guo ◽  
Kun Lu

In the data-rich manufacturing environment, the production process of work-in-process is described and presented by trajectories with manufacturing significance. However, advanced approaches for work-in-process trajectory data analytics and prediction are comparatively inadequate. However, the location prediction of moving objects has drawn great attention in the manufacturing field. Yet most approaches for predicting future locations of objects are originally applied in geography domain. When applied to manufacturing shop floor, the prediction results lack manufacturing significance. This article focuses on predicting the next locations of work-in-process in the workshop. First, a data model is introduced to map the geographic trajectories into the logical space, in order to convert the manufacturing information into logical features. Based on the data model, a prediction method is proposed to predict the next locations using frequent trajectory patterns. A series of experiments are performed to examine the prediction method. The experiment results illustrate the impacts of the user-defined factors and prove that the proposed method is effective and efficient.

2022 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Meng Chen ◽  
Qingjie Liu ◽  
Weiming Huang ◽  
Teng Zhang ◽  
Yixuan Zuo ◽  
...  

Next location prediction is of great importance for many location-based applications and provides essential intelligence to various businesses. In previous studies, a common approach to next location prediction is to learn the sequential transitions with massive historical trajectories based on conditional probability. Nevertheless, due to the time and space complexity, these methods (e.g., Markov models) only utilize the just passed locations to predict next locations, neglecting earlier passed locations in the trajectory. In this work, we seek to enhance the prediction performance by incorporating the travel time from all the passed locations in the query trajectory to each candidate next location. To this end, we propose a novel prediction method, namely the Travel Time Difference Model, which exploits the difference between the shortest travel time and the actual travel time to predict next locations. Moreover, we integrate the Travel Time Difference Model with a Sequential and Temporal Predictor to yield a joint model. The joint prediction model integrates local sequential transitions, temporal regularity, and global travel time information in the trajectory for the next location prediction problem. We have conducted extensive experiments on two real-world datasets: the vehicle passage record data and the taxi trajectory data. The experimental results demonstrate significant improvements in prediction accuracy over baseline methods.


Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (9) ◽  
pp. 1029
Author(s):  
Ying-Mei Tu

Since last decade, the cluster tool has been mainstream in modern semiconductor manufacturing factories. In general, the cluster tool occupies 60% to 70% of production machines for advanced technology factories. The most characteristic feature of this kind of equipment is to integrate the relevant processes into one single machine to reduce wafer transportation time and prevent wafer contaminations as well. Nevertheless, cluster tools also increase the difficulty of production planning significantly, particularly for shop floor control due to complicated machine configurations. The main objective of this study is to propose a short-term scheduling model. The noteworthy goal of scheduling is to maximize the throughput within time constraints. There are two modules included in this scheduling model—arrival time estimation and short-term scheduling. The concept of the dynamic cycle time of the product’s step is applied to estimate the arrival time of the work in process (WIP) in front of machine. Furthermore, in order to avoid violating the time constraint of the WIP, an algorithm to calculate the latest time of the WIP to process on the machine is developed. Based on the latest process time of the WIP and the combination efficiency table, the production schedule of the cluster tools can be re-arranged to fulfill the production goal. The scheduling process will be renewed every three hours to make sure of the effectiveness and good performance of the schedule.


2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 690
Author(s):  
Tao Wu ◽  
Huiqing Shen ◽  
Jianxin Qin ◽  
Longgang Xiang

Identifying stops from GPS trajectories is one of the main concerns in the study of moving objects and has a major effect on a wide variety of location-based services and applications. Although the spatial and non-spatial characteristics of trajectories have been widely investigated for the identification of stops, few studies have concentrated on the impacts of the contextual features, which are also connected to the road network and nearby Points of Interest (POIs). In order to obtain more precise stop information from moving objects, this paper proposes and implements a novel approach that represents a spatio-temproal dynamics relationship between stopping behaviors and geospatial elements to detect stops. The relationship between the candidate stops based on the standard time–distance threshold approach and the surrounding environmental elements are integrated in a complex way (the mobility context cube) to extract stop features and precisely derive stops using the classifier classification. The methodology presented is designed to reduce the error rate of detection of stops in the work of trajectory data mining. It turns out that 26 features can contribute to recognizing stop behaviors from trajectory data. Additionally, experiments on a real-world trajectory dataset further demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach in improving the accuracy of identifying stops from trajectories.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Soroush Ojagh ◽  
Sara Saeedi ◽  
Steve H. L. Liang

With the wide availability of low-cost proximity sensors, a large body of research focuses on digital person-to-person contact tracing applications that use proximity sensors. In most contact tracing applications, the impact of SARS-CoV-2 spread through touching contaminated surfaces in enclosed places is overlooked. This study is focused on tracing human contact within indoor places using the open OGC IndoorGML standard. This paper proposes a graph-based data model that considers the semantics of indoor locations, time, and users’ contexts in a hierarchical structure. The functionality of the proposed data model is evaluated for a COVID-19 contact tracing application with scalable system architecture. Indoor trajectory preprocessing is enabled by spatial topology to detect and remove semantically invalid real-world trajectory points. Results show that 91.18% percent of semantically invalid indoor trajectory data points are filtered out. Moreover, indoor trajectory data analysis is innovatively empowered by semantic user contexts (e.g., disinfecting activities) extracted from user profiles. In an enhanced contact tracing scenario, considering the disinfecting activities and sequential order of visiting common places outperformed contact tracing results by filtering out unnecessary potential contacts by 44.98 percent. However, the average execution time of person-to-place contact tracing is increased by 58.3%.


PLoS ONE ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (11) ◽  
pp. e0207063 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yongping Du ◽  
Chencheng Wang ◽  
Yanlei Qiao ◽  
Dongyue Zhao ◽  
Wenyang Guo

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Xin Wang ◽  
Xinzheng Niu ◽  
Jiahui Zhu ◽  
Zuoyan Liu

Nowadays, large volumes of multimodal data have been collected for analysis. An important type of data is trajectory data, which contains both time and space information. Trajectory analysis and clustering are essential to learn the pattern of moving objects. Computing trajectory similarity is a key aspect of trajectory analysis, but it is very time consuming. To address this issue, this paper presents an improved branch and bound strategy based on time slice segmentation, which reduces the time to obtain the similarity matrix by decreasing the number of distance calculations required to compute similarity. Then, the similarity matrix is transformed into a trajectory graph and a community detection algorithm is applied on it for clustering. Extensive experiments were done to compare the proposed algorithms with existing similarity measures and clustering algorithms. Results show that the proposed method can effectively mine the trajectory cluster information from the spatiotemporal trajectories.


2020 ◽  
Vol Vol. 36 (No. 2) ◽  
pp. 49-57
Author(s):  
István Vajna ◽  
Anita Tangl

The case study shows the re-optimization of an initial new factory layout design with Value Stream Design (VSD). The VSD is a quantitative method and its’ final goal is to make a waste free optimized material flow. The primary goal of arrangement is to reduce transportation distances and frequencies, optimize human load. Initially the whole factory shop floor layout design was already made in push concept. The plans were made by production management, logistics, engineering department at the headquarter of the multinational automotive company with based on VDI2870 holistic concept linking strategy on tactics and operation. On the layout (v1.) the hundreds of machines were placed and arranged by CAD (Computer Design) engineers to fit the space. The factory building has 15,000 m2 with empty shop floor waiting for the final decisions for equipment. The factory production area was shared into six main production areas (P1-P6), which correlates with their product complexity of the product families. Each production area output can be finished product (FP) or semi-finished product (SFP) for the next production areas. To validate the whole factory layout it was necessary to involve lean experts that identified disadvantages and constraints. Without lean implementation the company’s transportation waste would be 49% more per year. The Value Stream Design importance nowadays is upgrading to a higher level, when the whole global business is changed, the labor force fluctuates, and the cost and delivery time reduction plays a vital role in the company’s profit and future. The research shows that if the decision taking is based on real data and facts the controlling and management can do its best in time. Using VSD and re-evaluating the transportation routes, frequency and costs is the first step to define a smooth, low cost, material flow (v2.). This development ensured the company to drive from push to pull production through mixed production system. Originally, the production flow was clockwise orientation. It was changed step by step to mixed production by eliminating work in process storages, implementing FIFO lanes, Milk Run, and Kanban. The total annual transportation distances were reduced from 4,905,000 m between the rump-up and serial production period. The warehouse storage size was reduced to 50% and implementation cost from €75,000 to €32,500. By eliminating work in process storages along production lines it was possible to open a new two way transportation road that also will serve the AGV’s operations in industry 4.0 projects. Due to decreased lead time the logistic labor productivity increased by 45%. Besides taking measurements for the VSD it was used Value Stream Mapping as a lean tool and an own designed VSD evaluation and a simulation software. The VSD team’s cooperative actions reduced the evaluation and validation time with 65% then it was initially planned. The implementations were evaluated from the rump-up phase to the first serial productions and the results were confirmed by controlling and management


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 7069-7074
Author(s):  
M. Masmali

The lean manufacturing concept is a systematic minimization of waste and non-value activities in production processes introduced by the Toyota production system. In this research, lean manufacturing is implemented in a cement production line. Value Stream Mapping (VSM) is applied to give a clear picture of the value chain in cement production processes and to highlight the non-value-added in the shop floor. To begin, the existing VSM is constructed based on the information and data gathered during visiting and observing the manufacturing process in the firm. As a result, the excess inventory between workstations was identified as a major waste generation, hence, the proposed VSM conducts further improvement and makes action plans to alleviate the unwanted activities. Then, the takt time to ensure smooth material flow and to avoid any occurring delay or bottleneck in the production line was figured out. The supermarket pull-based production control is suggested to be adopted in the future map. Two pull production strategies are selected in this case. The first is applying the Kanban system to control the level of inventory between workstations. The other is the CONWIP approach to control the amount of work in process to the entire production line. The outcome of the proposed models indicates a decrease of the none-value time from 23 days in the current state to about 4 and 2 days in Kanban and CONWIP systems respectively, so the CONWIP was suggested as most efficient. Some suggestions for further research are also mentioned.


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