Handbook of Expert Systems Applications in Manufacturing Structures and rules

Front Matter....Pages i-xviii
An introduction to expert systems in production and manufacturing engineering: the structure, development process and applications....Pages 1-20
Operations research/artificial intelligence rules for the optimal design of manufacturing systems: machine and traffic allocation....Pages 21-44
A common skeletal framework for knowledge-based solutions to a representative set of manufacturing problems....Pages 45-80
A general purpose knowledge-based system and its application to design problems....Pages 81-107
A knowledge-based system for selection of resource allocation rules and algorithms....Pages 108-129
An intelligent shop management system for production supervision....Pages 130-147
Intelligent systems for conceptual design of mechanical products....Pages 148-193
Knowledge-based surface treatment and coating selection in product design....Pages 194-209
Expert system for casting design evaluation....Pages 210-237
Expert system approaches to the selection of materials handling and transfer equipment....Pages 238-268
A knowledge-based system for scheduling in a flexible manufacturing system....Pages 269-287
‘Optimal’ rule switching for flow shops with random workloads....Pages 288-302
An expert system approach to surface mount pick-and-place machine selection....Pages 303-320
FIXPERT: A rule-based system for workholding device selection of rotational parts....Pages 321-342
Learning in robotic task planning....Pages 343-369
An expert system with an external optimization module for quality control decisions....Pages 370-381
Back Matter....Pages 383-397