REVIEW ARTICLE
Modularized Cutting Tool Selection Expert System
Chen Wang1, Wu Zhao*, 1, Ling Chen2, Kai Zhang1, Xin Guo1
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2014Volume: 8
First Page: 892
Last Page: 898
Publisher Id: TOMEJ-8-892
DOI: 10.2174/1874155X01408010892
Article History:
Received Date: 08/01/2015Revision Received Date: 15/01/2015
Acceptance Date: 16/01/2015
Electronic publication date: 31/12/2014
Collection year: 2014
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
This paper is to present a rule-based cutting tool selecting expert system which has knowledge modules and rule bases. Besides, according to different process targets, the selection progress will apply corresponding constraints and rule modules. The logic of tool selection follows a decision-making procedure as an experienced engineers. The strategy of system is to guide the user through several standard steps: information input; feature recognition; selection of machining method; selection of tool material and type; calculation of process parameter and solving cutting problem. This system also has a modularized structure which allows adding new functions and new modules to expand knowledge base and data base. Modules involves in this system are composed of the user interface, knowledge acquisition facility, explanation facility, the knowledge base module, the inference engine and the database module.
