近年來，由於大陸持續興建新世代面板廠，不斷擴充產能，在全球各類液晶顯示器需求下滑的情況下，面板價格持續下跌。為了對抗紅潮來襲，台灣的面板製造商的除了持續研發新產品與力求產品差異化外，也著重在穩定與提高產品品質。
本研究使用關聯分析，建構模型分析面板瑕疵間的相關性，實驗結果顯示，透過該產品最常發生的4個瑕疵，從一條或一條以上的規則中，可以找出面板上其他可能存在的罕見瑕疵，使檢測人員能快速且正確的檢測瑕疵。另外，以班別與機台為屬性值所作的實驗顯示，結果可以作為生產線的管理參考。

In recent years, many companies in China continued to build new-generation TFT-LCD plants for expanding production capacity. The growth of all kinds of liquid crystal display global demand has been slowed down, and the price of a panel continues to fall. The TFT-LCD makers in Taiwan pay their attentions on developing new products, differentiating the characteristics of products, and improving product quality to combat the red-tide strikes. This study proposes a method to analyze the association among the defects on TFT-LCD panels. There are four common defects in TFT-LCD panels, and the resulting rules provide the associations between common and rare detects. Inspectors can use the association rules to improve the detection efficiency and accuracy of defects by reducing their missing rates, and hence the quality of panels is enhanced. The experimental results on shifts and machines also present useful guidelines for managing the operations of production lines.

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