A novel distribution-free hybrid regression model for manufacturing process efficiency improvement

Article Type

Research Article

Publication Title

Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Abstract

This work is motivated by a particular problem of a modern paper manufacturing industry, in which the maximum efficiency of the fiber-filler recovery process is desired. A lot of unwanted materials along with valuable fibers and fillers come out as a by-product of the paper manufacturing process and mostly goes out as waste. The job of an efficient Krofta supracell is to separate the unwanted materials from the valuable ones so that fibers and fillers can be collected from the waste materials and reused in the manufacturing process. The efficiency of Krofta depends on several critical process parameters and monitoring them is a difficult proposition. To solve this problem, we propose a novel hybridization of regression trees (RT) and artificial neural networks (ANN), namely hybrid RT-ANN model, to solve the problem of low recovery percentage of the supracell. This model is used to achieve the goal of improving supracell efficiency, viz., gain in percentage recovery. Also, theoretical results for the universal consistency of the proposed model are given with the optimal value of a vital model parameter. Experimental findings show that the proposed hybrid RT-ANN model achieves higher accuracy in predicting Krofta recovery percentage than other conventional regression models for solving the Krofta efficiency problem. This work will help the paper manufacturing company to become environmentally friendly with minimal ecological damage and improvement in their waste recovery process.

First Page

130

Last Page

142

DOI

10.1016/j.cam.2019.05.013

Publication Date

12-15-2019

Comments

Open Access, Green

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