Publisher's Synopsis
This is a guide for designers, engineers, and managers intended to help them through the technical and organizational pitfalls of expert systems development in manufacturing environments. It describes the nature of expert systems technology, expert system architectures, patterns of expert system development in manufacturing, and the technical processes and organizational environment necessary for expert system development. It will include a series of detailed case studies showing how these issues were handled in practice. It also summarizes the pitfalls and success factors in ES development.
