Knowledge-Based Diagnostics and Design Systems
Abstract Substantial literature using knowledge-based system techniques has been accumulated over the past few years in the fields of diagnostics, modeling and design. Many of these techniques have been successfully used by a wide variety of industrial companies. The purpose of this paper is to present a summary of these new techniques, and an examination of their advantages and limitations for industrial applications. These techniques will help to insure the integrity of future concurrent design and manufacturing development. The purpose of our survey study is to show that the design and modeling of product functions and their associated diagnostic processes should be tightly coupled. The design and diagnostic tasks should be supported by integrated and intelligent software. Many examples of knowledge-based systems for disk drive diagnostics and design will also be included.