TY - JOUR
T1 - Discrete Workshop Production Bottleneck Prediction with CNN-LSTM Spatio-temporal Network Integrated with Dual Attention Mechanism
AU - Shi, Yihan
AU - Zhang, Xu
AU - Zhuang, Cunbo
AU - Liu, Jinshan
AU - Wang, Jiaxiu
AU - Sun, Liansheng
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026, Chinese Mechanical Engineering Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2026/3/5
Y1 - 2026/3/5
N2 - In the assembly pull production mode, the discrete manufacturing workshop, which is characterized by decentralized production tasks, flexible equipment layout, and complex processes, serves as the core carrier of the multi-factory(shop) production mode. However, the dynamic drift of bottleneck units in both temporal and spatial dimensions has become a critical challenge that limits the improvement of production efficiency and resource utilization. Thus, investigating the bottleneck prediction problem in discrete workshops is crucial for enhancing overall production efficiency in multi-factory settings. To address this, a spatiotemporal network prediction model integrating dual attention mechanisms, CNN-LSTM-DAM (Convolutional neural network-long short term memory-dual attention mechanism), is proposed. First, a composite definition-based bottleneck identification model is constructed, considering the multi-attribute coupling of bottleneck units. Second, the identified historical quasi-bottleneck data are input into the spatial feature perceiver integrated with CNN and spatial attention mechanism, as well as the temporal feature perceiver integrated with LSTM and state attention mechanism, as auxiliary data to further enhance the model's ability to capture spatial and temporal information in production sequence data. Finally, through ablation experiments, the proposed model is compared with other LSTM variants, such as gated recurrent unit (GRU) and bidirectional long short term memory (BiLSTM). The results verify the model's accuracy and effectiveness in predicting bottleneck units and their drift trends within a given time delay.
AB - In the assembly pull production mode, the discrete manufacturing workshop, which is characterized by decentralized production tasks, flexible equipment layout, and complex processes, serves as the core carrier of the multi-factory(shop) production mode. However, the dynamic drift of bottleneck units in both temporal and spatial dimensions has become a critical challenge that limits the improvement of production efficiency and resource utilization. Thus, investigating the bottleneck prediction problem in discrete workshops is crucial for enhancing overall production efficiency in multi-factory settings. To address this, a spatiotemporal network prediction model integrating dual attention mechanisms, CNN-LSTM-DAM (Convolutional neural network-long short term memory-dual attention mechanism), is proposed. First, a composite definition-based bottleneck identification model is constructed, considering the multi-attribute coupling of bottleneck units. Second, the identified historical quasi-bottleneck data are input into the spatial feature perceiver integrated with CNN and spatial attention mechanism, as well as the temporal feature perceiver integrated with LSTM and state attention mechanism, as auxiliary data to further enhance the model's ability to capture spatial and temporal information in production sequence data. Finally, through ablation experiments, the proposed model is compared with other LSTM variants, such as gated recurrent unit (GRU) and bidirectional long short term memory (BiLSTM). The results verify the model's accuracy and effectiveness in predicting bottleneck units and their drift trends within a given time delay.
KW - CNN-LSTM
KW - bottleneck prediction
KW - dual attention mechanism
KW - multi-attribute bottleneck
KW - multi-step time series forecasting
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105036639088
U2 - 10.3901/JME.260227
DO - 10.3901/JME.260227
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:105036639088
SN - 0577-6686
VL - 62
JO - Jixie Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
JF - Jixie Gongcheng Xuebao/Chinese Journal of Mechanical Engineering
IS - 5
ER -