A variety of approaches to the intelligent analysis of complex manufacturing data have been described in the literature. A comparative analysis of these systems reveals underlying similarities in their functional organizations. This leads to the development of a general functional model for intelligent data analysis (IDA).
This article describes the various data analysis systems studied, the general model for IDA, and the implementation of a demonstration IDA system. The implementation serves to demonstrate the feasibility of this approach, and provides directions for further research.
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Patil, P., Brown, D.C. & Hachem, N.I. Intelligent data analysis systems. J Intell Manuf 4, 121–137 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00123906
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