MANAGING PRODUCTION PROCESS IN A PET RESIN INDUSTRY USING DATA MINING AND GENETIC PROGRAMMING

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2022.29.5.8203

Keywords:

Data mining, Genetic Programming, PET Resin industry, Production Management

Abstract

Balancing the production volume and costs because of the petrol prices and, thus, supply change rapidly is one of the managerial issues in the polymer industry. In this study, data about the chemical operation of PET resin products have been used, and monthly and annual production plans and their influencing factors have been analyzed with data mining techniques in the plastic industry. The algorithm of find-dependencies used to find effective parameters has been identified in the levels of monthly production, sale, and end-of-the-month inventory. Rules have been established with the find-laws algorithm, and genetic programming is used to predict the outputs. It shows that high-accuracy applicable rules can be obtained with these technics. The rules proved to be more accurate at the end of the comparison and became employable for decision-support to the production process of the PET Resin factory. With these techniques used for the first time on such a problem in the literature, all similar companies can provide clarity in their strategic decisions and efficiency in using company resources and production.

Author Biographies

Berrin Denizhan, Industrial Engineering Department, Sakarya University

Berrin Denizhan received the PhD. degree in Industrial Engineering department from Sakarya University, Turkey. She is currently assistant professor in the Department of Industrial Engineering, Turkey. Her research interests include 3PLs and Transportation Management, Data Mining application in Supply Chain and Logistics Management.

Feyza Gürbüz, Industrial Engineering Department, Erciyes University

Feyza Gurbuz received her Ph.D. degree in Mechanical Engineering from ErciyesUniversity, Turkey. She is currently an Assistant Professor at Erciyes University, Department of Industrial Engineering in Turkey. Her research interests include data mining analysis, knowledge management and Transportation.

Celal Öztürk, Department of Computer Engineering, Erciyes University

Celal Öztürk received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering from Erciyes University, Turkey. He is currently Associated Prof. at Erciyes University, Department of Computer Engineering in Turkey. His research interests include machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, bioinformatics and information systems.

Published

2022-10-17

How to Cite

Denizhan, B., Gürbüz, F., & Öztürk, C. (2022). MANAGING PRODUCTION PROCESS IN A PET RESIN INDUSTRY USING DATA MINING AND GENETIC PROGRAMMING. International Journal of Industrial Engineering: Theory, Applications and Practice, 29(5). https://doi.org/10.23055/ijietap.2022.29.5.8203

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Data Sciences and Computational Intelligence