Title :
Bill-of-material configuration generation
Author :
Blaha, M.R. ; Premerlani, W.J. ; Bender, A.R. ; Salemme, R.M. ; Kornfein, M.M. ; Harkins, C.K.
Author_Institution :
General Electr. Corp. Res. & Div., Schenectady, NY, USA
Abstract :
A novel system which combines elements of database management, object-oriented technology and artificial intelligence is described. This system addresses certain bill-of-material (BOM) configuration generation problems and should not be confused with the more typical BOM recursive traversal problems. The BOM configuration system automatically extracts design rules from existing BOM designs. The system then, in turn, applies the rules to generate new BOM designs. It is shown that there are special requirements of the applications that make BOM configuration a difficult process
Keywords :
artificial intelligence; configuration management; database management systems; object-oriented programming; software engineering; BOM configuration system; artificial intelligence; bill-of-material; configuration generation problems; database management; design rules; existing BOM designs; object-oriented technology; special requirements; Application software; Assembly; Bills of materials; Costs; Data mining; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Research and development; Research and development management; Technology management;
Conference_Titel :
Data Engineering, 1990. Proceedings. Sixth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Los Angeles, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2025-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICDE.1990.113474
