Expert System Development for Spur Gear Design

Expert systems have experienced tremendous growth and popularity since their commercial introduction in the early 1980’s. Today, expert systems are used in business, science, engineering, manufacturing, medical diagnosing, chemical, and many other fields. Mechanical engineers are the major users, expert systems, are finding rapid application in industry for such tasks as analysis of quality control data, assisting manufacturing personnel to safely operate machinery and accurately tune instruments. The design of gearbox requires good design decisions and design calculations, which are often interrelated with the various parameters. By using an expert system, which has various advantages, gearbox design will take less time and be easier. It will provide an important advantage in today’s competition conditions since it decreases human power and workday waste as well as cost. Hence an expert system has been developed for gearbox design in this study.