Abstract:As a complicated production system with small sample, diversified small-quantity production have many influencing factors in the process of manufacture. Ignoring the direct effect on quality results of this influencing factors cause a limitation of forecast accuracy. A method combined the principal component analysis (PCA) with the support vector machine (SVM) is applied to the qualitative forecasting for diversified small-quantity production in this paper. Firstly, quantifiable influencing factors in the process of manufacture were selected as the initial influencing factor set;Secondly, the dimension of the initial influencing factor set was reduced by the method of PCA to simplify operations;Lastly, a SVM regression model for diversified small-quantity production was constructed by using the key principal components as the influencing factor set. Case study results illustrate that, compared with the SVM model, both the accuracy rate and the stability were improved. It indicates that the PCA-SVM model has better predictive performance.