  This paper describes our approach to the Bosch production line performance
challenge run by Kaggle.com. Maximizing the production yield is at the heart of
the manufacturing industry. At the Bosch assembly line, data is recorded for
products as they progress through each stage. Data science methods are applied
to this huge data repository consisting records of tests and measurements made
for each component along the assembly line to predict internal failures. We
found that it is possible to train a model that predicts which parts are most
likely to fail. Thus a smarter failure detection system can be built and the
parts tagged likely to fail can be salvaged to decrease operating costs and
increase the profit margins.
