Project name: QPAC
Intelligent reuse of process FMEA information
Start date: September 1995 Finish date: August 1998
Funding
EPSRC ACME Grant £157,354
Staff
Chris Price, Mark Ratcliffe, Ian Pegler
Collaborating organisations
Morris Ashby Castings Ltd Kaye (Presteigne) Ltd Burdon & Miles Ltd
Objectives
The main aim of the project is to show how integration of process design information with factory floor troubleshooting knowledge will benefit both the design task and the troubleshooting task. This aim will be attained by implementing systems at an aluminium foundry to integrate the design and diagnostic processes, and examining their effectiveness and their limitations. It can be broken down into the following tasks:
- Study of the information flows in the foundry.
- Construction of information recording system.
- Implementation of case-based troubleshooting system linked to the information recording system.
- Construction of problem analysis system.
- Implementation of system to provide information for process FMEA.
- Evaluation of the effectiveness and general applicability of the systems.
We believe that development of such systems will make important information consistently available throughout the organisation. This will have significant quality benefits for the company using them. The results of the project will be carefully analysed to extract the lessons of general relevance to all such organisations with similar needs.
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