Title :
Decision making for investment in manufacturing equipment via PDP network-the application of schema model
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Ind. & Manage. Syst. Eng., Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA
Abstract :
Summary form only given. It is pointed out that, to survive in the competitive manufacturing industry, manufacturers have to select machines with good performance and low cost. For different manufacturing environments, various constraints have to be taken into account. It may be difficult to reach a perfect solution to fulfill all constraints. With an injection molding machine used as a case study, a schema model of a PDP network was used to assist in decision making for machine selection based on machine performance and cost criteria
Keywords :
engineering computing; financial data processing; manufacturing data processing; neural nets; PDP network; case study; competitive manufacturing industry; cost criteria; decision making; injection molding machine; investment; machine performance; machine selection; manufacturing environments; manufacturing equipment; schema model; Costs; Decision making; Engineering management; Environmental economics; Injection molding; Intelligent networks; Investments; Manufacturing industries; Systems engineering and theory;
Conference_Titel :
Neural Networks, 1991., IJCNN-91-Seattle International Joint Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seattle, WA
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-0164-1
DOI :
10.1109/IJCNN.1991.155489
