摘要 |
<p>A computer system (10) having an open process modeling architecture along with a structured knowledge acquisition framework used to intelligently and efficiently design machinery. The system has a machinery design knowledge manager (14) connected to a computational interface server (16) that together interact and coordinate the activities of one or more knowledge databases (18). The machinery design knowledge manager (14) executes the core decision making processes of system (10) and functions as a rule-based inference engine.</p> |