Authors tried to construct multimedia base support system of the manufacturing process
with use of the knowledge base and the inference engine on the www server. This knowledge
database systematized the knowledge which was obtained from the document and the skilled engineer
as much as possible by using a knowledge engineering technique. However, it is difficult for beginner
to find the best processing condition under the condition of the material, the machine and the tool on
grinding operation by using the conventional database. Especially, when they encountered the
manufacturing condition which is not built into the conventional data base, the past optimum
conditions cannot be obtained from the expert system. The best method of obtaining the optimum
conditions as the solution of this problem is to execute some experiments for this new case. This
research proposed the system, which presented a minimum combination of the multi factor
experiments for the best manufacturing condition search by using the Taguchi method. We were able
to obtain the best condition to use the proposed robust engineering by only 18 times.
Knowledge Engineering Technique for Cluster Development
