QEX: An in-process quality control expert system

✍ Scribed by John Cesarone

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 631 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0736-5845
• DOI: 10.1016/0736-5845(91)90037-s

✦ Synopsis

True computer-integrated manufacturing requires that many links between factory processes become more automated, more computerized, and more intelligent. Many links between processes, however, are based on human judgement, experience, and intuition. These are naturally difficult tasks to automate, but the advent of artificial intelligence, and specifically expert system programming, has made such links possible. This paper presents a research effort toward one of these links, that of quality control judgements of ongoing processes. The use of expert system programming, combined with in-process metrolngy and system integration, allows the factory to be more fully automated and computer-integrated, resulting in higher process precision and lower production errors. This paper will discuss how the expert system approach is used to integrate the quality judgement process into the production process, and bring the factory one step further toward total CIM.