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The role of decision support and expert systems in manufacturing has been slowly growing over the past few years. One reason for the increased usage of such systems is that many production problems are far too complex for traditional optimization methods (Philip and Schultz, 1990). The application of support technologies to manufacturing problems, however, has primarily remained in the more reactive domains of diagnosis, monitoring and control. The view taken in this chapter is that intelligent support systems should be developed to take a more proactive role in modern industrial organizations.
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Bird, S.D. (1997). Intelligent decision support for quality function deployment. In: Parsaei, H.R., Kolli, S., Hanley, T.R. (eds) Manufacturing Decision Support Systems. Manufacturing Systems Engineering Series, vol 1. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1189-8_4
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