An object-oriented intelligent design tool to aid the design of manufacturing systems

摘要

Manufacturing systems design appears to be an excellent area for applying artificial intelligence(AI), object-oriented techniques and computer simulation methods, however, so far there have been limited research on integrating AI, object-oriented techniques and simulation techniques for manufacturing systems, design. In this paper, an integrated approach for manufacturing systems design is introduced which consists of the developing and testing of alternative designs using an integrated system SBDSS. SBDSS mainly consists of two subsystems, object Library Modeler and Simulation Engine with its manager.