TY - JOUR AB - Purpose– According to the basic principle of grey system and third axiom buffer operator, aiming at the problem of disturbance, some new weakening buffer operators are established by analytical skills in the process of prediction. The problem of some contradictions between quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis existing in pretreatment for vibration data sequences is resolved effectively. An example shows that the kind of new weakening buffer operators increase the forecast precision of data forecast model remarkably. The aim of this paper is to attempt to resolve the problem of some contradictions between quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis existing in pretreatment for vibration data sequences.Design/methodology/approach– In view of the problem of some contradictions between quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis existing in pretreatment for vibration data sequences, according to the basic principle of grey system and third axiom buffer operator, some new weakening buffer operators are established by analytical skills. As an example, the kind of new weakening buffer operators can increase the forecast precision of data forecast model remarkably.Findings– The results show that the new weakening buffer operators can increase the forecast precision of data forecast model remarkably.Practical implications– The new weakening buffer operators exposed in the paper can be used to resolve the problem of some contradictions between quantitative analysis and qualitative analysis existing in pretreatment for vibration data sequences and increase the forecast precision of data forecast model remarkably.Originality/value– The paper succeeds in increasing the forecast precision of data forecast model remarkably. VL - 1 IS - 2 SN - 2043-9377 DO - 10.1108/20439371111163774 UR - https://doi.org/10.1108/20439371111163774 AU - Luo Dang AU - Wang Xia PY - 2011 Y1 - 2011/01/01 TI - The construction of new weakening buffer operators and their application T2 - Grey Systems: Theory and Application PB - Emerald Group Publishing Limited SP - 148 EP - 157 Y2 - 2024/04/16 ER -