AI-Knowledge Based Systems at BHP CPD

A surface level expert system has been developed to judge the feasibility of automating the design of new nonstandard product routings. The main goal in this domain is to design or plan an appropriate sequence of processing units to be used in the manufacture of non-standard products. Each product order has associated with it a description of the desired steel product based on a range of mechanical and metallurgical features such as width, thickness, surface finish, hardness, coating type, and so on.