Application of Improved SOM Neural Network in Manufacturing Process Quality Control

Abstract

The use of neural networks in quality control has been a popular research topic over the last decade. An adaptive self-organizing mapping (SOM) neural network algorithm is proposed to overcome the shortages of traditional neural networks in this paper. In order to improve the classification effectiveness of SOM neural network, this paper designs an improved SOM neural network, which improved the algorithm formula based on input vector, the number setting of competitive layer neurons and the initializing weight vector. And the method is used to classify the product of cement slide shoe bearing in manufacturing process quality control, and experiment results show that the algorithm adapts well the unsupervised learning problems. Keywords-Self-organizing Mapping (SOM), artificial neural network, manufacturing process quality control