AEMPES: an expert system for in-situ diagnostics and process monitoring

AEMPES (Advanced Electronic Materials Processing Expert System), an expert system for in-situ diagnostics and process monitoring, is being developed. This system is a key component of intelligent manufacturing equipment architecture and is intended to integrate the manufacturing line with its simulator. In the expert system, there are two interrelated subsystems: a neural network subsystem for adaptive process control, monitoring, and learning; and a rule-based subsystem for human interface and high-level AI (artificial intelligence) reasoning. Also presented is a neural network software, INNSE (Interactive Neural Network Simulation Environment)