Computational Intelligence in Design and Manufacturing by And... - 9780471348795

Computational Intelligence in Design and ManufacturingAuthor(s): Andrew Kusiak\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: Wiley-Interscience\nISBN-13: 9780471348795, 978-0471348795\nSynopsis\nTake the next step in Integrated Product and Process Development\n This pioneering book is the first to apply state-of-the-art computational intelligence techniques to all phases of manufacturing system design and operations. It equips engineers with a superior array of new tools for optimizing their work in Integrated Product and Process Development.\n Drawing on his extensive experience in the field of advanced manufacturing, Andrew Kusiak has masterfully embedded coverage of data mining, expert systems, neural networks, autonomous reasoning techniques, and other computational methods in chapters that cover all key facets of integrated manufacturing system design and operations, including:\n * Process planning\n * Setup reduction\n * Production planning an.