what is six sigma

Six Sigma Methodology Whether you are launching Six Sigma throughout an entire organization or implementing it to improve the performance...

MRP

Introduction The fact that manufacturing continues to become a commodity within the value chain is indisputable. The greater the rate of...

Lean Manufacturing

When you think of manufacturing, what comes to mind? A dark, dirty picture of dangerous factories filled with workers and machines...

'Intelligent agents' putting the smart in artificial intelligence

Expect "intelligent agents" — artificial Intelligence (AI) systems equipped with their own sets of beliefs and life goals — to...

Case-Based Reasoning: A Research Paradigm

Expertise comprises experience. In solving a new problem, we rely on past episodes. We need to remember what plans succeed and what plans...

Intelligent Maintenance: Is machine learning smart enough to help industry?

How access to massive amounts of data benefits machine design, control systems, production, maintenance and business With the leading...

Artificial intelligence in design / manufacturing

What does artificial intelligence have to do with control engineering? Answer: One way artificial intelligence relates to control...

Super Interesting Expert System - Mycin

MYCIN is an expert system (Duda and Shortliffe, 1983). By that mean that it is an AI program designed (a) to provide expert-level...

“Classical” Expert Systems

Classical Expert Systems Mycin Category - Diagnosis Domain - Bacterial blood infections Characteristics - Used certainty factors to...