SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR USING BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE FOR RULEBASED MANUFACTURING PROCESSING DESIGN

摘要

A method for using Business Intelligence to create rules for manufacturing process design has been developed. First, product characteristics are extracted from a Product Life Cycle Management / Product Data Management (PLM / PDM) system (s). Subsequently, process data are extracted from a manufacturing database and then production data is extracted from the PLM / PDM system (s). All extracted data is stored in a data evaluation database. The contents of the data evaluation database are then analyzed by the data evaluation system which generates a decision tree; An automatic rule generator is used to create manufacturing process rules from the decision tree. The process rules are then stored in a process rule database and used by an automated or semi-automated process design machine.