AI-Enhanced Predictive Maintenance in Manufacturing Processes

Abstract

This research aims to apply artificial intelligence technology to a manufacturing industry, specifically, to forecast temperature and insulation values of motors from the CNC machine. Dataset from motor sensors are collected and forecasting models are trained using four deep learning models, namely, multilayer perceptron (MLP), long-short term memory (LSTM), LSTM autoencoder, and bidirectional LSTM (Bi-LSTM). Models are evaluated by measuring the deviation of forecasting values from the real values. Two measures, root mean square error (RMSE) and mean absolute error (MAE), are used to assess model’s performance. Experiments are conducted and found that the Bi-LSTM yielded the lowest RMSE and MAE numbers, hence, the best model to be selected. Further development has been implemented by integrating Bi-LSTM and genetic algorithm (GA) in order to optimize the model performance. Instead of searching the huge hyperparameter space of the neural network, the integrate GA-LSTM model using RMSE as a fitness function to reduce the search space and obtain the optimal or near optimal hyperparameters. The empirically best model is found which yields a lower RMSE value of 0.041 comparing to 0.18 when not optimized.