@InProceedings{molleda2012ias,
  author    = {Julio Molleda and Juan Carlos Granda and Rubén Usamentiaga and Daniel Fernando García and David Laurenson},
  title     = {A quality inspection system for resistance seam welds in endless production of steel coils using anomaly detection techniques},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the {IEEE} Industry Applications Society Annual Meeting (IAS)},
  abstract  = {Endless strip generation is the key to productivity and quality in several types of steel coil production lines. Coil-to-coil joining by means of welding machines provides such a strip. Since the joint is the weakest area of the strip, its quality must be assessed in order for the production line to accept it. Therefore, it is necessary to inspect the quality of the weld in the welding-cycle time. Based on our knowledge acquired in the previous development of quality assessment prototypes for steel strips, we present in this paper an improved inspection system to detect defective resistance seam welds based on anomaly detection techniques. This system does not rely on the weld classifications done in production lines based on welding control programs. Therefore, it is immune to the influence of both incorrectly configured welding control programs and chemical composition variations from coil to coil of the same steel grade. Tuning the inspection system required a fully experimental design which would have taken several months in a conventional computer. For this reason, the high-performance computing facilities at the Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center were used to cut down the tuning time. 2012 {IEEE}.},
  author+an = {2=highlight},
  date      = {2012},
  year      = {2012},
  doi       = {10.1109/IAS.2012.6374073},
  isbn      = {978-1-4673-0332-3},
  keywords  = {Anomaly detection, Chemical compositions, Computer software selection and evaluation, Conventional computers, High-performance computing, Industrial applications, Inspection equipment, Inspection system, Parallel architectures, Production line, Quality assessment, Quality inspection systems, Seam weld, Steel coil, Steel grades, Steel strip, Tuning time, Welding, Welding control, Welds},
  url       = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84871650920&doi=10.1109%2fIAS.2012.6374073&partnerID=40&md5=4a6afa4a690599dcd1d5ea09f52cf036},
  urldate   = {2012-10-07},
  type      = {research},
  address    = {Las Vegas, Nevada, Estados Unidos},
  eventdate  = {2012-10-07/2012-10-11},
  comunicacion = {Oral},
}