Defective products management in a furniture production company: A data mining approach

What is it about?

Quality is one of the main focuses of the manufacturing companies. Therefore, this issue takes attention of many researchers from both academic and professional environment. In industries like furniture where company types are most likely workshop or small-medium enterprise and production method is traditional, effective methods to prevent faulty production must be considered.

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Photo by Toa Heftiba on Unsplash

Why is it important?

Traditional or statistical methods are good to track defective products and keep the within desired levels, however not as good to prevent them from occurring. These methods come with an acceptance to some level of defective production. In this study, it is aimed to evaluate the in the furniture production sector and to reveal the source of the defective production and the factors that cause the defect in terms of which department. In addition, finding the most appropriate methods to accurately analyze the data coming from the company is another research topic of this study.