Details of Grant 

EPSRC Reference:	GR/J62685/01
Title:	A SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENT FOR MACHINERY DESIGN
Principal Investigator:	Sanger, Professor J
Other Investigators:	Howard, Professor D Kerr, Dr D
Researcher Co-Investigators:
Project Partners:	Advanced Manufacturing Technology Resear Pre Nexus Migration Unilever
Department:	Aeronautical Mech & Manufacturing Eng
Organisation:	University of Salford
Scheme:	LINK
Starts:	12 December 1993	Ends:	11 June 1997	Value (£):	145,198
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Design Engineering
EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:	Manufacturing
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The aim of this project is to create and demonstrate a high level software environment to support the machinery designer.This environment will be user-friendly; it will allow transparent access to a wide range of decision-making facilities, with intrinsic provision for many more. In particular, it will aid the designer to create a design specification through a facility known as the specifier, and will use constraints and truth maintenance techniques to seek and provide solutions through a resolver.The outcome of the project will be the software environment, and a demonstration of its capabilities by application to case studies gathered early in the project. Those case studies will serve to define aspects of the specification interaction process, and later, in the updated form, to verify the environment against live industrial design problems. The novelty in the project is the way in which the software environment will invoke the lower level established technologies without direct reference to the designer. The touchstone of competition against existing or proposed industrial design advances will provide a direct measure of effectiveness. Interfacing with a wide range of analysis and other packages is made transparent within the environment.
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