On Diagnosis of Machining Processes: a Fuzzy Approach

Manufacturing operations have empiric nature. Under any kind of problem during the execution of a given process, practical knowledge, experience and intuition have been used in solving these problems. However, many firms face problems since they do not have an adequate knowledge base to maintain and represent skills and expertise. Therefore, the importance of developing intelligent systems that assist the users in generating solutions for given problems. This paper presents a fuzzy based approach for a diagnosis system for solving machining problems. Because of the probability of having a great number of fuzzy rules, a rule navigation procedure, which aim is accelerating the searching process enhancing the system performance is proposed.