On developing an expert system for sintering process in iron and steel industry

Abstract

An expert system for the sintering process in an iron and steel company in Egypt is under development. The objective of this work is to introduce the prototype implementation project of this system. The authors focus on the nature of the sintering knowledge, the proposed knowledge structuring, and the knowledge representation formalism. They also discuss the various prototype levels of implementation and illustrate the practical development of the structural and diagnosis levels of the expert system prototype.<>