Utilization of Data Mining Methods in Manufacturing Industry

The paper presents data mining as a suitable tool for analyzing data from industrial processes. The data mining methods offer a wide range of uses in the current age of digitalization, big data processing and analysis. Apart from discovering patterns and detecting relationship between individual characteristics, assuring quality of products, prediction and optimization of process performance, data mining techniques also contribute to the transition from a reactive to a predictive approach in problem solving. The first part of the paper presents the possibilities of utilization of data mining methods and techniques to analyze data from industrial processes. The second part of the paper deals with a selection of proper data mining method and its practical application on data from manufacturing industry.