PP Presentation
Rules Definition Facility
Description:
- General facility to define and edit rules using menus.
- Captures PCA product, process and manufacturing knowledge in the form of rules for use with the Rule Execution Facility.
- Allows users to pose what if questions.
- Generates syntactically correct rule files (for use with the Rule Execution Facility).
Existing capabilities:
- Complete editor for retrieving, defining, editing and storing rules
- Institutionalization of Design Guides.
- Allows users to categorize rules.
- Reduces the need for a knowledge engineer to write rules.
Enhancements for TIGER:
- Enhanced the rule to rule execution (chaining) capability
- Added rule priority and versioning
- Enhanced definition of users and organizations (required for NF)
- Efficiency updates (rule code to individual files)