Application of knowledge-based systems to electronic computer-aided engineering, design, and manufacturing data base transport

Thesis/Dissertation · Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 1985

OSTI ID:5488554

Hooper, R P

The proliferation of computer-aided engineering (CAE), design (CAD) and manufacturing (CAM) systems for electronic design has created an excess of CAE/CAD/CAM database formats. These databases very from one system to the next, and yet they often carry common information, represented in different formats. In spite of this variation, databases must be transported between systems, since electronic design requires the use of features from several CAE/CAD/CAM systems. Commercial offerings that translate between CAE/CAD/CAM formats do not translate all of the data. This is because there is usually some data which is unique to each system and cannot be translated. Most commercial translators disregard this data. This is not satisfactory in all cases, since important data relationships are lost in translation. This dissertation defines a methodology for the transport of databases between independent CAE/CAD/CAM systems. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of this methodology, a prototype system was developed. A nontraditional, expert systems approach was used to solve the problems that have plagued earlier attempts at a data transport method. The prototype was implemented using PROLOG, running under LOCUS/UNIX on a VAX network.

• Research Organization: California Univ., Los Angeles (USA)
• OSTI ID: 5488554
• Resource Relation: Other Information: Thesis (Ph. D.)
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN
DATA BASE MANAGEMENT
COMPUTER-AIDED MANUFACTURING
COMPUTER NETWORKS
EXPERT SYSTEMS
INTERACTIVE DISPLAY DEVICES
DISPLAY DEVICES
MANAGEMENT
MANUFACTURING
990200* - Mathematics & Computers
990300 - Information Handling