The expert system supporting design of the manufacturing information acquisition system (MIAS) for production management

This paper describes the expert system created to support development of Manufacturing Information Acquisition System (MIAS) for any company, regardless of company’s technological processes characteristics. Proper acquisition of data describing the state of the production processes is crucial in the management of a company, because real-time information is a base for decision making and achieving operational excellence. Information on the state of production system have to be automatically acquired from various sources, pre-processed and made available for higher-layers IT systems (MES, ERP). One of the stages of development of MIAS is the synthesis of technical and organizational solutions responsible for the acquisition of various types of data. In order to support designers an expert system “MIAS Advisor” has been developed, supporting the choice of methods and technical means for the acquisition of data on various aspects of the operation of a company. The algorithm of the expert system operation, which allows easy updating of a set of rules of the system has been presented.