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This paper describes an expert system that helps designers select a manufacturing process in the earliest 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. A versatile methodology should consider all the factors simultaneously in assessing the suitability of the candidate processes. The proposed system uses the concept of design compatibility analysis to represent the suitability of candidate processes with respect to the given product specifications. The expert system uses this knowledge to eliminate incompatible candidates and rank the compatible set of processes. A prototype system called HyperQ/Process uses HyperCard and Prolog to implement the proposed methodology. HyperQ/Process also contains information related to each process.
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Ishii, K., Krizan, S., Lee, C.H., Miller, R.A. (1991). HyperQ/Process: An Expert System for Manufactuing Process Selection. In: Rzevski, G., Adey, R.A. (eds) Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Engineering VI. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-3648-8_26
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