Overview
Some of the most fruitful products of Artificial Intelligence research currently being applied in industry are in the area of Expert Systems. This volume, the second in a new series, examines the application of Expert Systems across a wide range of engineering disciplines. Papers have been selected to illustrate current applications across a wide range of industries including process industries, construction, electronics manufacture and manufacturing automation. Reports give details of projects in on-line process control, computer-aided design, fault diagnosis, control of robotic systems and production scheduling. Authors include researchers and engineers from the USA, Europe and Japan, to give a global view of these exciting new developments.