Effective Implementation of Value Engineering Using Artificial Neural Network Aid of Optimization Techniques

Abstract

Value Engineering (VE) is a method for characterizing the developed requirements of a product, and it is concerned with the selection of less excessive conditions. VE can understand and improve the optimal outcome such as quantity, security, unwavering quality and convertibility of each managerial unit. It is an incredible solving tool that can diminish costs while preserving or improving performance and quality requirements. In this research work, VE is presented to calculate the heating cost and cooling cost of the air conditioner with the assistance of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) with an optimization model. This ANN model effectively chooses the maximum number of sources obtainable and the source respective method with low functional cost and energy consumption. For improving the prediction accuracy of VE in the ANN model, we have incorporated some training algorithms and optimized the network hidden layer and hidden neuron by Opposition Genetic Algorithm (OGA). From the results, trained ANN with OGA predicts the output with 96.02% accuracy and also minimum errors compared with the existing GA process.