A quantitative intelligent system for concurrent design

Author

Xue, D. ; Dong, Zhaoyang

Author_Institution

Dept. of Mech. Eng., Victoria Univ., BC, Canada

fYear

1993

fDate

13-16 Sep 1993

Firstpage

681

Abstract

This paper presents the methods for developing an automated concurrent engineering design (or concurrent design) system using the quantitative intelligent system approach. The task of concurrent engineering design is examined first and the basic requirements for conducting automated concurrent design are outlined. These analyses concluded that automated concurrent design can only be accomplished by combining qualitative reasoning based upon design and manufacturing knowledge, and quantitative analysis using design and manufacturing data. A new method, called quantitative intelligent system approach, which supports both symbolic reasoning and numerical calculation, is proposed. A prototype automated concurrent design system is developed based upon this new method, and implemented using Smalltalk-80

Keywords

concurrent engineering; inference mechanisms; intelligent design assistants; knowledge based systems; knowledge representation; manufacturing data processing; production engineering computing; automated concurrent design system; concurrent engineering; manufacturing data; qualitative reasoning; quantitative intelligent system; symbolic reasoning; Computer aided manufacturing; Concurrent computing; Concurrent engineering; Cost function; Geometry; Intelligent manufacturing systems; Intelligent systems; Manufacturing automation; Production systems; Prototypes;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 1993., Second IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Vancouver, BC

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1872-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.1993.348325

Filename

348325