...José A. Comesaña Benavides; J. Carlos Prado This paper presents our experience in the development of an expert system to be used for detailed scheduling in an industrial company. This was a middle‐sized company which builds metallic components for the automotive industry. Because of the complexity...

...Vaidyanathan Jayaraman; Rajesh Srivastava Defines an expert system (ES) as a decision‐making tool that captures perishable expertise from an expert and stores this knowledge in the computer, and also as a computer system that can solve problems using human expertise and knowledge of the system...

... may provide a company with a strategic competitive advantage. Explains that the supplier selection decision now involves many judgemental factors in addition to the historical selection criteria. Offers a prototype expert system which enables users to evaluate and select a potential supplier based...

... satisfactory results. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Expert systems Job shop Knowledge‐based systems Modelling Scheduling Simulation After generating a schedule, the scheduling status variables are passed to the perform component to calculate the total values of the scheduling performance...

...Bo K. Wong; John K.S. Chong; Jaesun Park An analysis of survey data collected from a sample of 98 Fortune 500 industrial companies reveals that expert systems (ESs) are utilized in manufacturing by 52 per cent of the companies, among which ESs are perceived to be more useful in process...

...K. Fiedler; J.E. Galletly; J. Bicheno Describes an expert system which goes some way towards providing detailed advice for implementing Just‐in‐Time (JIT) concepts in a manufacturing environment. Advises managers as to which techniques should be realized in order to begin implementation of JIT...

... to the type of job shop. Generally, various rules are tried and those giving the best result are used as a starting point. The human expert sifts the schedule through his experience filter, negotiates with affected parties, and finalizes a schedule. Expert systems are beginning to impact in this area...

... a hypothetical manufacturing example. The example focuses on interfacing knowledge from an expert with a simulation model to make scheduling decisions in a manufacturing environement. The knowledge system is constructed using the M.1 expert system package and the simulation is performed using SLAM II. Expert...

...D.B. Candlin; S. Wright Considers the importance of knowledge management for competitive advantage and the contribution which expert systems may make to the process. Explains the structure and role of expert systems, and outlines the advantages they may offer. Explores different methods...