The direction of future development and the role of knowledge in manufacturing technology

✍ Scribed by Kazuaki Iwata; Toshimichi Moriwaki

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 708 KB
• Volume: 1
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0736-5845
• DOI: 10.1016/0736-5845(84)90033-4

✦ Synopsis

The directions of technological innovation and possible future development of the manufacturing technologies are examined, taking into consideration the environments surrounding the manufacturing technologies. The subjects for development in future manufacturing technologies are discussed, and in particular, the roles of artificial intelligence and knowledge engineering are examined in detail. Applications of knowledge engineering to actual problems in manufacturing are introduced, including application of knowledge engineering to the representation and understanding of the specifications in the design stage, knowledge-based process planning, and high intelligence FMS. A new concept called EA (enterprise automation) is also proposed, which deals with the integrated software system of the entire enterprise.