METHOD OF ESTABLISHING A PROCESS DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM
1 Assignment
0 Petitions
Accused Products
Abstract
A method of establishing a process decision support system. Decision support systems of the kind are used in manufacturing processes, particularly industrial manufacturing processes, to monitor the performance of the processes in view of controlling the processes in order to optimise process production and quality. The method includes collecting process data of a process, collecting operational data of a process, and fusing the process data and operational data to create a fused data set (such as a consolidated rule set) of the process upon which process decisions (such as control decisions) may be taken. The process data and operational data may be fused according to methods of rules-based knowledge fusion, mathematical knowledge fusion, or case-based reasoning knowledge fusion.
24 Citations
64 Claims
-
1-33. -33. (canceled)
-
34. A method of establishing a process decision support system, the method comprising:
-
collecting process data of a process; collecting operational data of the process; defining process conditions for specific process performance from the process data and the operational data; generating at least one data-driven rule from the process data; capturing at least one operational rule from the operational data; and fusing the at least one data-driven rule with the at least one operational rule to create a consolidated rule set. - View Dependent Claims (35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63)
-
-
64. A process decision support system comprising a software implementation of a set of computer executable instructions operable to execute a method of establishing a process decision support system, the method comprising:
-
collecting process data of a process; collecting operational data of the process; defining process conditions for specific process performance from the process data and the operational data; generating at least one data-driven rule from the process data; capturing at least one operational rule from the operational data; and fusing the at least one data-driven rule with the at least one operational rule to create a consolidated rule set.
-
Specification