Energy-Efficient Prediction in Textile Manufacturing: Enhancing Accuracy and Data Efficiency With Ensemble Deep Transfer Learning
This study addresses the challenge of high energy consumption in traditional textile manufacturing and the limited applicability of deep neural networks (DNNs) in production output prediction due to data scarcity caused by the high cost of sensor deployment. To overcome this, the authors propose an Ensemble Deep Transfer Learning (EDTL) framework that uniquely integrates ensemble learning with transfer learning. EDTL leverages models pretrained on data-rich production lines and incorporates a feature alignment layer to enhance cross-line generalization, enabling effective knowledge transfer to data-scarce lines. Evaluated on a real-world textile factory dataset, EDTL achieves a 5.66% improvement in prediction accuracy and a 3.96% gain in robustness compared to conventional DNNs when only 20%–40% of training data is available, significantly enhancing both data efficiency and model performance.