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An empirical study of learning-to-rank for spare parts consumption in the repair process
  • Edson Duarte,
  • Daniel de Haro Moraes,
  • Lucas Leonardo Padula
Edson Duarte
Venturus Innovation Center

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Daniel de Haro Moraes
Venturus Innovation Center
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Lucas Leonardo Padula
Venturus Innovation Center
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Abstract

The repair process of devices is an important part of the business of many original equipment manufacturers. The consumption of spare parts, during the repair process, is driven by the defects found during inspection of the devices, and these parts are a big part of the costs in the repair process. In previous work we proposed a data-driven method for Supply Chain Control Tower solutions to provide support for the automatic check of spare parts consumption in the repair process. In this paper, we continue our investigation of a multi-label classification problem and explore alternatives in the learning-to-rank approach, where we simulate the passage of time using more data while training and comparing hundreds of Machine Learning models to provide an automatic check in the consumption of spare parts. We investigate the effects of different train set sizes, retraining intervals, models and hyper-parameter search using Bayesian Optimization. The results show that we were able to improve the trained models and achieve a higher mean NDCG@20 score of 86% when ranking the expected parts. Focusing on the most recent data, we achieve a NDCG@20 score of 90%, while obtaining a ratio of marked parts of just 4% of the consumed parts for use in alert generation.
20 Feb 2023Submitted to Expert Systems
20 Feb 2023Submission Checks Completed
20 Feb 2023Assigned to Editor
20 Feb 2023Reviewer(s) Assigned
21 Apr 2023Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
23 May 2023Editorial Decision: Revise Major
07 Jun 20231st Revision Received
07 Jun 2023Submission Checks Completed
07 Jun 2023Assigned to Editor
07 Jun 2023Reviewer(s) Assigned
28 Jun 2023Review(s) Completed, Editorial Evaluation Pending
17 Aug 2023Editorial Decision: Accept