DEVELOPING THE SUPPORT FRAMEWORK SYSTEM OF SPECIAL PURPOSE MACHINES DESIGNING

From the customer side the requirements of the special purpose machines are getting more and more diversified and complex year by year. Could it be possible to make a design support frame-software in this field? An expert system will be shown in this paper, which is based on previously built machines. The machine parts and subassemblies are stored in a database. The possible contacts between these subassemblies are presented in a knowledge base. The purpose of this expert system is to offer a valuable help for the design engineer when a new machine plan is needed. The program output is the bill of material which contains the required subassembly, and even the cumulated price.