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From: welty@steinmetz.ge.com (richard welty)
Newsgroups: comp.ai,rec.railroad
Subject: Re: Expert Systems in the Railroad Industry.
Message-ID: <10517@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 21 Apr 88 15:31:51 GMT
References: <8816@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <3573@mtgzy.UUCP> <4643@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: welty@steinmetz.UUCP (richard welty)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Someone wrote:

*     What sort of expert systems have developed for the railroad
*      industry? 
  
In article <4643@cup.portal.com> tony_mak_makonnen@cup.portal.com writes:
>Strangely enough, the one that I know of is a General Electric locomotive
>maintenance expert system.  It was mentioned in a computer magazine and
>one of the railfanning mags. last year.
>yes and it was finally coded in Forth.

It was written here at GE R&D, a few years back, for use on GE locomotives
(in a group that was a precursor to the AI program that I work in now.
I was not involved in the project itself, which was completed long
before I joined the program).

Reportedly, it has had good success in speeding up diagnosis of problems
in locomotives in the field.
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