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An Artificial Neural Network for the Selection of Winding Material in Power Transformers Eleftherios I. Amoiralis, Pavlos S. Georgilakis, and Alkiviadis T. Gioulekas Technical University of Crete, University Campus, Kounoupidiana, Chania, Greece {Eamoiralis, Pgeorg}@dpem.tuc.gr Abstract. The selection of the winding material in power transformers is an important task, since it has significant impact on the transformer manufacturing cost. This winding material selection has to be checked in every transformer de- sign, which means that for each design, there is a need to optimize the trans- former twice and afterwards to select the most economical design. In this paper, an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is proposed for the selection of the winding material in power transformers, which significantly contributes in the reduction of the effort needed in the transformer design. The proposed ANN ar- chitecture provides 94.7% classification success rate on the test set. Conse- quently, this method is very suitable for industrial use because of its accuracy and implementation speed. 1 Introduction In today’s competitive market environment there is an urgent need for the transformer manufacturing industry to improve transformer efficiency and to reduce costs, since high quality, low cost products, and processes have become the key to survival in a global economy [1]. In addition, the variation in the cost of the materials has direct impact in the optimum transformer design. This work investigates the selection of the material of the transformer windings, which can be copper (CU) or aluminum (AL). Since CU and AL are stock exchange commodities, their prices can significantly change through time. Consequently,