...Mohsen M.D. Hassan Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to evaluate expert systems (ES) for selection of material handling (MH) equipment on their use of information and generation of equipment, and provide guidelines that can enhance developing them in the future. Design/methodology...

... equipment types with their specifications; a knowledge‐based expert system for assisting material handling equipment selection; and an analytic hierarchy process (AHP) model to choose the most favorable equipment type. The concept proposed in this paper can automate the design of material handling equipment...

... in material handling. Especially when an expert builder leaves a company, knowledge goes with him and is lost to the company. Therefore, retention of valuable information in the form of a knowledge base is a very desirable resource. The purpose of this paper is to develop a computer‐based expert system...

... as well as stochastic demand models. This paper includes an empirical evaluation of the system on real data from the manufacturing and airline industries which shows that this system can lead to significant savings in inventory cost. The emergence of expert systems has provided a useful approach...

... indicates that the expert system based inference method has its obvious tracing orbit, and can be explicitly retrieved again. It is therefore good at inferring with explicit knowledge, such as production rules, and is thus named the explicit inference method. Indeed, such an inference method possesses...

... to provide for data and process integration within its processing domain, supported by a stable grouping of machines on the shop floor. The framework is illustrated with a manufacturing case and a discussion of information system support in the form of expert systems. The paper is structured as follows...

...Alberto De Toni; Guido Nassimbeni; Stefano Tonchia Describes a production scheduler, which utilizes a hybrid push/pull approach to scheduling and exploits the expert system technology in order to obtain satisfactory solutions. The scheduler is applied to a multi‐stage production and inventory...

...) expert system, which is concerned with the field of Surface T/C and their selection for optimum engineering design solutions. Introduces the T/C selection methodology and also describes the system developed. A logic‐based AI language, Prolog, has been used for the system development and versions...

...C.S. Syan Considers the development of the automatic cutting tool selection system. Examines how the advent of knowledge‐based expert systems and CAD popularity has enabled wider availability of manufacturing process information, and the knowledge requirements for specifying optimal cutting tools...

... Discusses the use of an expert system‐based package, LOCAM, by four component manufacturers to bring together widely distributed expert knowledge. Examines the decision‐making facilities of LOCAM, and the way in which the integration of functions can result in a competitive edge in terms of lead...