[PDF] Knowledge Base Expert System For Design And Selection Of Material Handling Systems eBook

Author : James H. Bookbinder
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Page : 13 pages
File Size : 46,54 MB
Release : 2017
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Expert systems (ES) have produced much excitement in recent years. Because a great deal of experience and knowledge are captured in the ES, there may be no need to consult a specialist for every decision in the given area. A properly designed expert system thus has in its knowledge base a wide collection of facts, relationships, and rules specific to that domain.Expert systems have been published in a number of logistics-related areas. Application domains include inventory management, vehicle routing, warehousing, combined production/distribution systems, and the scheduling of machines and flexible manufacturing cells. General surveys of ES methods are available for decisions in industrial engineering, logistics, and intelligent manufacturing.In this article, we develop an expert system for the selection of material handling equipment. The paper begins by outlining the steps in choosing such equipment for a warehouse or factory. We next discuss their knowledge embedded in our ES in various databases and groups of rules.The article then presents a complete run of the expert system. The user responds to a sequence of questions, resulting in a short-list of feasible equipment. This is ranked according to “distance,” the closeness of each to (nonexistent) ideal equipment for the particular application. The distances are derived from multi-attribute decision making (MADM). Brief appendices deal with MADM and the database concepts used in our ES. Throughout, the presentation is aimed at logisticians who may not be specialist in the technical issues involved.

Author : A. Mital
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 30,77 MB
Release : 2013-03-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9401107033

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This book is aimed at both researchers and practitioners, and provides a collection of expert systems in manufacturing and production engineering along with their knowledge base and rules. We believe that inclusion of the knowledge base and associated rules is essential if practitioners are to derive full benefit from these expert systems. This unique book is the result of our belief and the efforts of our distinguished colleagues who subscribe to this philosophy. A total of 15 different expert systems are included in this book. These expert systems are preceded by an introductory chapter written by Kuo, Preface XVll Mital and Anand. The expert system rules are included on a floppy disk in ASCII and can be easily accessed. These rules and the description of the expert system's structure should assist the users in customizing these systems. Overall, the expert systems included in this volume cover a fairly wide variety of manufacturing and production engineering topics.

Author : Nikolai Vatin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 573 pages
File Size : 26,29 MB
Release : 2021-03-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030724042

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This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of energy, environmental and construction engineering, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the International Scientific Conference Energy, Environmental and Construction Engineering, held in St. Petersburg, Russia on November 19-20, 2020. It covers highly diverse topics, including BIM; bridges, roads and tunnels; building materials; energy efficient and green buildings; structural mechanics; fluid mechanics; measuring technologies; environmental management; power consumption management; renewable energy; smart cities; and waste management. The contributions, which were selected by means of a rigorous international peer-review process, highlight numerous exciting ideas that will spur novel research directions and foster multidisciplinary collaborations.

Author : Luis M. Camarinha-Matos
Publisher : Springer
Page : 631 pages
File Size : 35,77 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0387353909

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Towards Intelligent Manufacturing Systems This book contains the selected articles from the third International Conference on lriformation Technology for Balanced Automation Systems in Manufacturing. A rapid evolution in a number of areas leading to Intelligent Manufacturing Systems has been observ@d in recent years. Significant efforts are being spent on this research area, namely in terms of international cooperative projects, like the IMS initiative, the USA NIIIP (National Industrial Information Infrastructure Protocols) project, or the European ESPRIT programme, and a growing number of conferences and workshops. The importance of the Information and Communication Technologies in the manufacturing area is weIl established today. The proper combination of these areas with the socio-organizational issues, supported by intelligent tools, is however, more difficult to achieve, and fully justifies the need for the BASYS conference and the publication of the series of books on Balanced Automation SyStems. The first book of this series focused on the topic of "Architectures and Design Methods", was published in 1995. Mahy of the fundamental aspects of manufacturing, and some preliminary results were presented in this book. Among others, the topics included: Modeling and design of FMS, Enterprise modeling and organization, Decision support systems in manufacturing, Anthropocentric systems, CAE/CAD/CAM integration, Scheduling systems, Extended enterprises, Multi agent system architecture, Balanced flexibility, Intelligent supervision systems, Shop-floor control, and Computer aided process planning.

Author : Sunderesh S. Heragu
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 629 pages
File Size : 50,58 MB
Release : 2006
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ISBN : 0595359388

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"Facilities Design" covers modeling and analysis of the design, layout and location of facilities. It also covers design and analysis of materials handling.

Author : Maznah Iliyas Ahmad
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Page : 262 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2009
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Material handling is one of the production functions that have been the focus of attention for many manufacturing industries especially discrete parts manufacturing. Generally, the design of material handling system can be divided into four phases namely; conceptual design, detailed design, launching and fully operational. The focus of this research is on the conceptual design phase. Since there are hundreds of equipment types and procedures to choose from, the selection activities are usually complex and difficult. Therefore, quick and appropriate material handling selection is important in a production system, since it can increase productivity, flexibility of the manufacturing time and it also reduces cost. Hence, development of a decision support system to aid in the selection of the material handling equipment is a significant contribution in manufacturing operations. In this research work, the selection system was developed using Kappa-PC expert system shell. It uses forward chaining for inferencing. In the forward reasoning stage, the developed system attempts to deduce a material handling equipment type recommendation based on user specified requirements. The selections of the material handling equipment are based on the move attributes and characteristics of material to be handled, operation requirement and area restriction. The recommendation from the knowledge-based system is refined through application of simulation modeling techniques. The simulation was carried out using Arena 9.0 software package. The material handling selection system assist design engineers in selecting the most suitable and appropriate material handling equipment type for the task being considered. The advantages of the developed system are; it considers both selection and configuration analysis, it can be immediately implemented in factory operations; it is modular and user friendly. The system was successfully validated through a case study. The case study was carried out on Sharp Manufacturing Corporation Sdn. Bhd., in Malaysia. Through the case study, a total of 5.20s of the transfer time and RM 9.00 per cycle of the transportation cost of the current Sharp Manufacturing System will be reduced. This result in 72.22 and 75.00 percent of improvement on the transfer time and transportation cost respectively. By the reduction and improvement on the transfer time and transportation cost, the efficiency of the material flow and productivity of the Sharp Manufacturing system will increase and the production cost will reduce.

Author : J.M. Tanchoco
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,81 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 1461524989

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This book contains a collection of contributions related to the design and control of material flow systems in manufacturing. Material flow systems in manufacturing covers a broad spectrum of topics directly affecting issues related to facilities design, material handling and production planning and control. In selecting the papers to include in this book, the scope was limited to the design and operational control aspects related to the physical move ment of parts, tools, containers and material handling devices. Recent develop ments in this area naturally led to concentration on flow systems involving cellular manufacturing, and automated transport equipment such as automated guided vehicles. However, the concepts discussed have general applicability to a wide range of manufacturing flow problems. The book is organized in five major sections: 1. design integration and justification; 2. cell design and material handling considerations; 3. alternative material flow paths; 4. operational control problems; and 5. tooling requirements and transport equipment.

Author : Prashant M. Pawar
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 1006 pages
File Size : 29,9 MB
Release : 2019-11-06
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 3030169626

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This book, divided in two volumes, originates from Techno-Societal 2018: the 2nd International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Societal Applications, Maharashtra, India, that brings together faculty members of various engineering colleges to solve Indian regional relevant problems under the guidance of eminent researchers from various reputed organizations. The focus is on technologies that help develop and improve society, in particular on issues such as the betterment of differently abled people, environment impact, livelihood, rural employment, agriculture, healthcare, energy, transport, sanitation, water, education. This conference aims to help innovators to share their best practices or products developed to solve specific local problems which in turn may help the other researchers to take inspiration to solve problems in their region. On the other hand, technologies proposed by expert researchers may find applications in different regions. This offers a multidisciplinary platform for researchers from a broad range of disciplines of Science, Engineering and Technology for reporting innovations at different levels.