Construction of a consulting system from structural description of a mechanical object

This new consulting system with graphical interfaces can assist a naive user in disassembling and reassembling a cylindrical machine by analyzing the structural description. Most trouble shooting systems developed so far do not tell us the way for decomposing the object to find out trouble points. If we could not know how to disassemble the object, we would be unable to inspect the trouble point. This system can assist naive users in both disassembling and reassembling an object. A user can hardly disassemble by simple command sequences that the system gave. This system automatically generates all possible procedures of disassembling the object from the 3D models. Then an integrated instruction facility using a visual interface must be offered for specifying what portion of the object should be dis/reassembled at the next stage, and for verifying whether user´s operation is correct or not. And in future, a manipulator may dis/reassemble the machine instead of man. Furthermore we suggest the integrated maintenance system consisting of this consulting system and other modules.