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Jane Frederick					Friday 27 February
G.E. Industrial Automation Systems		Terman 556
						1:30-3:00pm

	"Expert Systems in Electronic Manufacturing"

Manufacturing appears to be one of the fertile fields for expert system
applications.  The tasks are bounded and repetitive in nature.  There
exists a set of experts which regularly perform the tasks.  These tasks
can be defined in process steps and last but not least, manufacturing is a
direct pay point.  The payback for quality and productivity improvements
can be specifically determined.  This last issue is very important and
often overlooked, but expert systems development and implementation is an
expensive and ongoing process.  Therefore, one of the challenges for expert
systems in manufacturing is selecting the correct application and the one
with the greatest payback.

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