Current Issue : January-March Volume : 2025 Issue Number : 1 Articles : 5 Articles
The rapid progression of emerging technologies like the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data analytics for manufacturing has driven innovation across various industries worldwide. Production data are utilized to construct a model for quality evaluation and analysis applicable to components processed by machine tools, ensuring process quality for critical components and final product quality for the machine tools. Machine tool parts often encompass several quality characteristics concurrently, categorized into three types: smaller-the-better, larger-the-better, and nominal-the-better. In this paper, an evaluation index for the nominal-the-better quality characteristic was segmented into two single-sided Six Sigma quality indexes. Furthermore, the process quality of the entire component product was assessed by n single-sided Six Sigma quality indexes. According to numerous studies, machine tool manufacturers conventionally base their decisions on small sample sizes (n), considering timeliness and costs. However, this often leads to inconsistent evaluation results due to significant sampling errors. Therefore, this paper established fuzzy testing rules using the confidence intervals of the q single-sided Six Sigma quality indices, serving as the fuzzy quality evaluation model for components of machine tools....
Global warming has led to the continuous deterioration of the living environment, in which air quality directly affects human health. In addition, the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic has further increased the attention to indoor air quality. Indoor clean air quality is not only related to human health but also related to the quality of the manufacturing environment of clean rooms for numerous high-tech processes, such as semiconductors and packaging. This paper proposes a comprehensive model for evaluating, analyzing, and improving the operational performance of air cleaning equipment. Firstly, three operational performance evaluation indexes, such as the number of dust particles, the number of colonies, and microorganisms, were established. Secondly, the 100(1− α)% upper confidence limits of these three operational performance evaluation indexes were deduced to construct a fuzzy testing model. Meanwhile, the accumulated value of φ was used to derive the evaluation decision-making value. The proposed model can help companies identify the key quality characteristics that need to be improved. Furthermore, the competitiveness of cooperative enterprises towards smart manufacturing can be strengthened, so that enterprises can not only fulfill their social responsibilities while developing the economy but also take into account the sustainable development of enterprises and the environment....
This study uses fuzzy–rough analysis to investigate the influence of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) ratings, along with critical financial and growth ratios, on the stock returns of blue-chip companies in Taiwan. The growing importance of ESG factors in investment decisions underscores the need to understand their impact on stock performance. By integrating the fuzzy– rough set theory, which accommodates uncertainty and imprecision in data, we analyze the complex relationships between ESG ratings, traditional financial metrics (such as ROE, return on equity), and stock returns. Our findings provide insights into how ESG considerations, alongside financial indicators, drive the returns of Taiwan’s blue-chip stocks. Three public-listed companies were evaluated using this approach, and the results are consistent with the actual stock performance. This research contributes to the field by offering a robust methodological approach to assess the nuanced effects of ESG factors on financial performance, thus aiding investors and management teams in making informed decisions....
In the Basic College Mathematics Course (BCMC) teaching, the contents are generally based on two-valued logic; however, fuzziness is commonly presented in real life. This leads to the insufficient cultivation of students’ innovative abilities, which constrains the expansion of students’ scientific thinking boundaries and, furthermore, the sustainability of course teaching. First, from the perspective of continuous effectiveness of course content in students’ subsequent learning and research, the connotation of sustainability of BCMC teaching was discussed. Then, based on the analysis of the basic methods of fuzzy sets, their role in cultivating students’ innovative abilities was explored. Next, focused on the three common BCMCs, namely, advanced mathematics, probability theory and mathematical statistics, and linear algebra, the specific teaching concepts and ideas were designed by integrating the fuzzy set methods. Finally, the exploratory teaching mode and approaches of integrating fuzzy set ideas into BCMCs were proposed. The proposed teaching approach helps to extend learners’ thinking boundaries, thereby providing support for cultivating students’ innovation ability and enhancing the sustained effects of course teaching. This study can also provide references for other course teaching....
This paper studies the sampled-data control problem for Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy systems with variable sampling. To lessen the conservatism of stability criteria, we introduce a refined looped Lyapunov functional (LLF). These functionals incorporate additional information on split sampling intervals and delayed states. Moreover, sampling-dependent matrix functions are presented to relax the conservativeness of the developed LLFs. By resorting to the refined LLFs, new stability and stabilization criteria for T-S fuzzy systems incorporating an H∞ performance are established. To validate the established conditions, a nonlinear permanent magnet synchronous motor and the Lorenz system are used to demonstrate the reduced conservatism and the merits of the presented methods....
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