Written by: STATISTICA News 12/2/2008 8:17 AM
StatSoft's article covering data mining applications for process improvement in discrete, batch and continuous manufacturing is cover story in December 2008 issue of Quality Digest.
Dr Thomas Hill, Robert Eames and Sachin Lahoti discuss the differences between traditional statistical analysis and data mining methods. The article stresses some advantages of data mining when applied to manufacturing applications.
Examples of process improvement opportunities and case studies are surveyed from Semiconductor, Chemical/Petrochemical, Pharmaceutical/BioPharmaceutical, and Power Generation industries.
Read the full article at the Quality Digest web site Finding Direction in Chaos