Intelligent Integrated Manufacturing Decision Making System

In today's highly competitive intellectual environments which force top management to constantly looking for better improvement and making the best decisions in shortest possible time and within limited resources. Managers in manufacturing companies need to have strong capability of adaptation mainly because of the dynamic relationships that must be established between manufacturing units. To achieve these, there is a need for an integrated manufacturing system that will handle all interactions and interrelationships which will then be affected by the changes and create maximum gain under heavy constraints on time, technical capabilities, finance and many other resources. This paper, addresses the problem of building intelligent computerized system that combines finished products, associated sub-assemblies, raw materials, interactive relationship activities, and/or reasoning capabilities. Systems with a high degree of computer intelligence are more robust, controllable, questionable, and lead to better optimality, and be able to perform its job more efficiently. The proposed system provides a number of objectives including cost minimization, control over manufacturing activities, intelligent querying and answering feature capabilities. It incorporates computer intelligence in manufacturing decision making process. Computer intelligence provides high interactivity, querying facilities, and reasoning possibilities. The proposed system finds the best optimal solutions while any other combinations would lead to an increase in the total variable costs. In order to convince general readers, an evidence of optimality is provided and a number of case studies for sensitivity analysis is conducted. The finding from the conducted experiments provides opportunities that the proposed model has higher trust over the conventional ones. The proposed system is general and therefore it is applicable to most manufacturing industries.