Expert systems are a branch of artificial intelligence that encapsulate the knowledge and behaviors of a subject matter expert in their domain of expertise. The expert’s automated services then become available throughout the enterprise. Classification and diagnosis represent an important class of problems that have traditionally been a major objective of expert systems. An object-oriented expe...

This paper describes an expert system that helps designers select a manufacturing process in the early stage of product design. First, the paper focuses on net-shape manufacturing processes and identifies the major factors that affect the selection of an appropriate process. Examples of these factors include shape, production volume, and material. A versatile methodology should consider all the...

The scroll type of compressor is becoming popular and widely used in refrigeration and air conditioners. But it is time consuming to design and manufacture the compressor since its components are of complex shape and of high precision requirements. This paper presents a concurrent engineering approach to computer-aided design and manufacturing of the compressor. The authors use C‡‡ programming ...

This paper reports on an automatic software design system used for a switching control system. The design knowledge is gained from diagrams produced by a CASE tool during the initial human design, is stored in each corresponding expert system unit, and is reused for reproducing the design. The design procedure consists of splitting a call process, inserting tasks and detailing. Various consider...

The paper presents the application of augmented reality to support product design and development. The paper concentrates on a new engineering tool. By this reason design and its issues are presented in a very limited way. The goal of the research was to improve design process and reduce product development time. The presented system bases on CAD software which is integrated with an expert syst...