An Iterative Procedure for Optimizing the Performance of the Fuzzy-Neural Job Cycle Time Estimation Approach in a Wafer Fabrication Factory

Table 1

The differences between the proposed methodology and the previous methods.

Method	SOM-WM [7], SOM-FBPN [17], kM-FBPN [22–24]	BPN-BPN [25]	FCM-FBPN-RBF [26]	The proposed methodology
Job preclassification	Yes	No	Yes	Yes
Job post/reclassification	No	Yes	Yes	Yes
Parameter replacement	No	No	No	Yes
Dealing with outliers	No	No	No	Yes
Iteration	No	No	No	Yes

∗RBF is radial basis function network.