Application of expert systems for selection of installation pipes

Abstract

© 2015, Strojarski Facultet. All rights reserved. The enterprises want to minimise the overall production costs, to maintain the quality and to increase the competitiveness on the market. It is possible to increase the number of customers, efficiency and effectiveness through the product quality. Therefore, every enterprise needs to have a good organisational structure, good experts and the knowledge how to do qualitative work. The paper shows the application of expert system to the problem of selection of installation pipes according to the given attributes. The input attributes are: mechanical load, material, colour, flame resistance, length, packaging, temperature range and outer diameter. The output parameter is the type of installation pipe. The expert system can give a second opinion, explicitly and in detail. They have the intelligent database and the possibility to adopt new knowledge, but also have a disadvantage that they use only the stored data to create solutions. Therefore, it is necessary to change the data according to a situation in the given environment. Despite the disadvantages of expert systems, their application is becoming increasingly important for the progress of enterprises.