Expert Computer System for Barrel Finishing.
Toshihiro Ioi, Masahisa MATSUNAGA, M Oshima, Fumiaki KOBAYASHI, Yoshiyuki TOMITA · Journal of the Japan Society for Precision Engineering · 1995
This paper treats the expert computer system for selecting barrel finishing operations.The barrel finishing data concerning the barrel machines, the features of workpieces and the finishing conditions, such as the selecting of media and compounds are classified to construct the expert system on the rule base and frame base learning system.The expert system composed of both production system and frame system is developed.The production system of two stages is introduced in the system.The preferable barrel machines can be selected by the first stage system, and the preferable finishing conditions, such as, the selection of media and compounds are decided by the second system.The combination of more than two barrel finishing conditions can be also decided by the system.It is found that the preferable barrel finishing conditions can be obtained by using the expert computer system which is developed in the study, and the verification results coincide fairly well with the experimental results.