Affiliation:
1. KUTAHYA DUMLUPINAR UNIVERSITY
2. KÜTAHYA DUMLUPINAR ÜNİVERSİTESİ
Abstract
Spot welding, a type of resistance welding, is a welding application widely used in the production area and it is a common method for joining metal sheets. The spot-welding process is widely used in many production areas, especially in the automotive industry, radiator, and wire mesh production. Spot welding in car production lines is mainly performed by robotic applications. Industry 4.0 and digital transformation trends have led to unprecedented data growth. Nowadays, the manufacturing industry benefits from the power of machine learning and data science algorithms to monitor production processes and make predictions for quality, maintenance, and production optimization. Applying machine learning algorithms reduces the duration and cost of experiments. This study aims to confirm whether the spot welding, applied by robotic arms, is within the ideal spot-welding norms, in real production area. The ideal parameter norms were evaluated by using KNN and CART machine learning algorithms. To use real production data, this study was executed in the body production assembly line, which is selected as the pilot area, at TOFAŞ factory. The data set used in this research consists of the welding parameters of the current year, 2023. By running machine learning algorithms on the dataset, the performance evaluation of each algorithm was examined and the most appropriate estimation method was determined. In the experiments, the best F1-Score value was obtained by the CART model with 93%.
Publisher
Afyon Kocatepe University
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