Precise and Accurate Job Cycle Time Forecasting in a Wafer Fabrication Factory with a Fuzzy Data Mining Approach

Table 4

The differences between the proposed methodology and the previous methods.

Method	Variable replacement	Job pre-classification	Job post-classification	Determining the bounds
SOM-WM, kM-FBPN, Look-ahead SOM-FBPN	No	Yes	No	Not discussed
Post-classifying FBPN-BPN	No	No	Yes	Not discussed
Bi-directional classifying FCM-FBPN-RBF	No	Yes	Yes	Not discussed
BPN-NP	No	No	No	Difficult
The proposed methodology	Yes	Yes	Yes	Easy