A Hybrid Expert System for Estimation of the Manufacturability of a Notional Design

Table 4

Contributions of this work.

Contribution	Explanation
Easy platform for iteration	The simple syntax we developed, which requires little needed knowledge of the underlying code, allows others to iterate on our work without having to write their own programmatic infrastructure
Demonstrates the tenability of an ES in this domain	We started this project aware of our lack of data with which to pursue a more conventional machine learning approach. Our methodology suggests that experts are a suitable replacement for data in the manufacturability domain.
Methodological insights	The insights into constructing an ES, and the methodology of the interviews, were not available to us before we started and are here made available to others who can benefit from them going forward