Research on knowledge-based dirt separator automatic design system

To design dirt separator rapidly and accurately, a knowledge-based product automatic design system was introduced in this paper. A way of adopting knowledge reuse to customize dirt separators was employed as the key technique of the system. According to the requirements of the automatic design system, a knowledge classification method was put forward, and the basic knowledge, design process knowledge and product structure knowledge were expressed in different forms respectively. Knowledge manager which acted as the core component of the system was introduced in detail. Finally, changeable structure of the dirt separator component was employed as a case to illustrate the practicality of applying knowledge-based automatic design system in developing dirt separator products.