Expert systems: An application in flexible manufacturing

Machine Learning, Mechatronics, and Stretch Forming: A History of Innovation in Manufacturing Engineering

“…The primary goal of FMS is to provide comprehensive data about the factory, enabling analysis and decision-making across a wide range of scenarios, including product planning, operations, and performance evaluation. In 1988, B. Farah proposed the development of an expert support system (ESS) to assist in the analysis of information needs and the design of information systems for flexible manufacturing [95].…”

Knowledge-based (expert) systems in engineering applications: A survey

“…An expert support system has been proposed by [24] for flexible manufacturing systems (FMS). It is used to provide the FMS with the capability to adjust in realtime to changes in the manufacturing environments.…”

Expert support systems design issues

“…A general ESS design and a prototype implementation for studying and modeling information systems is used to facilitate the discussion of ESS design issues and demonstrate their use (Farah, 1988). The information systems designer, assisted by this prototype, may build one or more models to describe the information systems requirements for a given environment.…”

“…Using the construction component the model-builder may construct a Petri net model from scratch by interacting with the system or may select to modify an existing model to reflect some additional realities. The validation component checks to see if the constructed model satisfies a set of properties considered essential of good Petri nets (Farah, 1988;Martinez and Silva, 1985). In case one or more of these properties are violated in a given model, the validation comwhere, in the network, these violations have been committed.…”