Expert systems as decision aid in surface mine equipment selection

ABSTRACT Mining integrates the skill of many engineering disciplines. Within these disciplines lies experience and expertise found in not other industry. To capture and widely apply this expertise is the challenge to developing the knowledge base expert systems The characteristics of plausible reasoning shared by medical diagnosis and mineral exploration are common, to some degree to many other evaluation tasks as well. Hence, the purpose of this paper is to illustrate, by a cast study of mining equipment selection, the general process of capturing and encoding human expertise into a mechanical realization.