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A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Sustainable Processes".

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Prof. Dr. Sun Hur

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Department of Industrial and Management Engineering, Hanyang University, Ansan 15588, Korea
Interests: data mining; industrial artificial intelligence; probabilistic OR

Prof. Dr. Jae-Yoon Jung

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Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si 17104, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Interests: industrial artificial intelligence; machine learning; data and process mining; smart manufacturing

Dr. Josue Obregon

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Department of Industrial and Management Systems Engineering, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do 17104, Korea
Interests: machine learning; smart manufacturing; smart energy; machine learning explainability; process mining; fault detection

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Dear Colleagues,

We are living in the big data era in which large amounts of information are continuously created, registering all kinds of events such as the ones generated in the design, planning, control, and execution of manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain processes. Furthermore, currently, a major concern for manufacturing organizations is the environmental responsibility that has become an integral aspect of the way their production processes are designed and executed.

Sustainable production processes involve the problems of traditional production processes but with the additional goal of reducing environmental impact and minimizing waste generation. Some of the approaches of sustainable production processes are energy reduction, emissions reduction, water use reduction, and waste generation reduction. The challenges of sustainable product design, process design, energy planning, and operational principles can be enhanced and optimized by utilizing big data analysis and the recently developed related information technologies, such as the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud, and cyber–physical space (CPS) technologies.

This Special Issue on “Application of Big Data Analysis and Advanced Analytics in Sustainable Production Process” aims to present a collection of state-of-the-art solutions to the different types of sustainable production processes using big data analysis as well as advanced analytics such as data mining, process mining, machine learning, and deep learning. Potential topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

(Data-driven) manufacturing processes;
(Data-driven) logistics and supply chain processes;
(Data-driven) green manufacturing;
(Data-driven) lean manufacturing processes;
(Data-driven) reconfigurable manufacturing processes;
(Data-driven) sustainable energy plant processes;
(Data-driven) factory energy management systems (FEMS);
Big data analytics and architectures for sustainable production processes;
IoT, cloud, and CPS systems for sustainable production processes;
Data warehouses for sustainable production processes;
Data mining and process mining for sustainable production processes;
Fault detection and system diagnostics for sustainable production processes;
AI, machine learning, and deep learning for sustainable production processes;
Theory and methods of big data analysis and advanced analytics;
Data-driven applications to sustainable production processes;
Case studies on sustainable production processes in industry.

Papers submitted to this Special Issue are expected to provide an original contribution, proposing new solutions/frameworks, improvements to existing solutions, and new applications with recent technologies. Contributions may take the form of (i) a research article, (ii) a review paper, or (iii) a case study or an industry paper.

Prof. Dr. Sun Hur
Prof. Dr. Jae-Yoon Jung
Dr. Josue Obregon
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Keywords

big data analysis
advanced analytics
sustainability
green manufacturing
production process
data mining
process mining
machine learning
deep learning

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Special Issue on “Application of Big Data Analysis and Advanced Analytics in Sustainable Production Process”

by Sun Hur, Jae-Yoon Jung and Josue Obregon

Processes 2022, 10(4), 670; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr10040670 - 30 Mar 2022

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We live in the big data era, in which a large amount of information is continuously created, registering all kinds of events, such as those generated in the design, planning, control, and execution of manufacturing, logistics, and supply chain processes [...] Full article

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Residual Life Prediction for Induction Furnace by Sequential Encoder with s-Convolutional LSTM

by Yulim Choi, Hyeonho Kwun, Dohee Kim, Eunju Lee and Hyerim Bae

Processes 2021, 9(7), 1121; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9071121 - 28 Jun 2021

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Induction furnaces are widely used for melting scrapped steel in small foundries and their use has recently become more frequent. The maintenance of induction furnaces is usually based on empirical decisions of the operator and an explosion can occur through operator error. To prevent an explosion, previous studies have utilized statistical models but have been unable to generalize the problem and have achieved a low accuracy. Herein, we propose a data-driven method for induction furnaces by proposing a novel 2D matrix called a sequential feature matrix(s-encoder) and multi-channel convolutional long short-term memory (s-ConLSTM). First, the sensor data and operation data are converted into sequential feature matrices. Then, N-sequential feature matrices are imported into the convolutional LSTM model to predict the residual life of the induction furnace wall. Based on our experimental results, our method outperforms general neural network models and enhances the safe use of induction furnaces. Full article

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Research on the Correlation between Work Accidents and Safety Policies in China

by Xiangbing Wang, Chengmin Wei, Yonghang He, Hui Zhang and Qifei Wang

Processes 2021, 9(5), 805; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9050805 - 4 May 2021

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In China, safety policies interfere with the occurrence of work accidents in the form of guidance and restrictions. In this study, the impact of types of safety policies on work accident prevention is quantitatively analyzed. Based on a statistical analysis of China’s safety policies and work-related accidents from 2000 to 2020, the following four policy indexes that reflect the impact of safety policies are identified: the stringency level of the policy; the scope; its technical content; and its industrial target. A vector autoregressive model (VAR) is used, and a dynamic analysis of the model is conducted with an impulse response function. The model’s degree of fit is 92.9%, the number of deaths and the number of safety policies are linearly related, and the relative error between the fitted values and the real values is approximately 5%. The negative correlation between the death rate per 100 million yuan and the stringency level, scope, technical content, and industrial targets of safety policies is first weak, then strengthened, and then weakens again over time. This study finds that the importance of safety policy indicators is different; especially, the strict safety policy has a long-term negative impact on mortality. For developing countries such as China, where the safety policy system is not yet perfect, increasing the number and implementation of safety policies can significantly improve the situation of production safety. Full article

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Real-World Failure Prevention Framework for Manufacturing Facilities Using Text Data

by Jonghyuk Park, Eunyoung Choi and Yerim Choi

Processes 2021, 9(4), 676; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9040676 - 13 Apr 2021

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In recent years, manufacturing companies have been continuously engaging in research for the full implementation of smart factories, with many studies on methods to prevent facility failures that directly affect the productivity of the manufacturing sites. However, most studies have only analyzed sensor signals rather than text manually typed by operators. In addition, existing studies have not proposed an actual application system considering the manufacturing site environment but only presented a model that predicts the status or failure of the facility. Therefore, in this paper, we propose a real-world failure prevention framework that alerts the operator by providing a list of possible failure categories based on a failure pattern database before the operator starts work. The failure pattern database is constructed by analyzing and categorizing manually entered text to provide more detailed information. The performance of the proposed framework was evaluated utilizing actual manufacturing data based on scenarios that can occur in a real-world manufacturing site. The performance evaluation experiments demonstrated that the proposed framework could prevent facility failures and enhance the productivity and efficiency of the shop floor. Full article

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Integrating Machine Learning, Radio Frequency Identification, and Consignment Policy for Reducing Unreliability in Smart Supply Chain Management

by Suman Kalyan Sardar, Biswajit Sarkar and Byunghoon Kim

Processes 2021, 9(2), 247; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9020247 - 29 Jan 2021

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Adopting smart technologies for supply chain management leads to higher profits. The manufacturer and retailer are two supply chain players, where the retailer is unreliable and may not send accurate demand information to the manufacturer. As an advanced smart technology, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) is implemented to track and trace each product’s movement on a real-time basis in the inventory. It takes this supply chain to a smart supply chain management. This research proposes a Machine Learning (ML) approach for on-demand forecasting under smart supply chain management. Using Long-Short-Term Memory (LSTM), the demand is forecasted to obtain the exact demand information to reduce the overstock or understock situation. A measurement for the environmental effect is also incorporated with the model. A consignment policy is applied where the manufacturer controls the inventory, and the retailer gets a fixed fee along with a commission for selling each product. The manufacturer installs RFID technology at the retailer’s place. Two mathematical models are solved using a classical optimization technique. The results from those two models show that the ML-RFID model gives a higher profit than the existing traditional system. Full article

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Integrating FMEA and the Kano Model to Improve the Service Quality of Logistics Centers

by Ling-Lang Tang, Shun-Hsing Chen and Chia-Chen Lin

Processes 2021, 9(1), 51; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr9010051 - 29 Dec 2020

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This study uses the logistics center of a large organic retail store in Taiwan to analyze service blueprint and workflow, identifying the potential points of failure and thus serving as a basis for quality improvement. The failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) model is an effective problem prevention methodology that can easily interface with many engineering and reliability methods. The utilized method integrates the failure mode and effect analysis (FMEA) and the Kano model to explore the possible occurrence of failures in the internal workflow and services of the studied logistics center. A two-stage survey was conducted. In the first stage, an investigation was conducted by 20 logistics experts on the FMEA’s key service failures. In the second stage, a questionnaire was filled out by 220 store staff to summarize the logistics service quality factors found in the Kano model. The results show that the degree of attention and satisfaction in the priority improvement items when there were service failures vary among the opinions of different internal employees and customers. The participants jointly believed that the items that need improvement are “Damaged incoming goods” and “A shortfall in the quantities of delivered goods”. Full article

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Quality Prediction and Yield Improvement in Process Manufacturing Based on Data Analytics

by Ji-hye Jun, Tai-Woo Chang and Sungbum Jun

Processes 2020, 8(9), 1068; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr8091068 - 1 Sep 2020

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Quality management is important for maximizing yield in continuous-flow manufacturing. However, it is more difficult to manage quality in continuous-flow manufacturing than in discrete manufacturing because partial defects can significantly affect the quality of an entire lot of final product. In this paper, a comprehensive framework that consists of three steps is proposed to predict defects and improve yield by using semi-supervised learning, time-series analysis, and classification model. In Step 1, semi-supervised learning using both labeled and unlabeled data is applied to generate quality values. In addition, feature values are predicted in time-series analysis in Step 2. Finally, in Step 3, we predict quality values based on the data obtained in Step 1 and Step 2 and calculate yield values with the use of the predicted value. Compared to a conventional production plan, the suggested plan increases yield by up to 8.7%. The production plan proposed in this study is expected to contribute to not only the continuous manufacturing process but the discrete manufacturing process. In addition, it can be used in early diagnosis of equipment failure. Full article

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