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Spang Robinson Report, November 1986 Vol 2, No 11 __________________________________________________________________________ Discussion of AI Applications to Manufacturing Carnegie Group has 90 percent of their toolkit sales and 100- per cent of their custom contracts from manufacturing clients. A spin off from Composition Systems is selling tools to manufacturing customers. (Composition Systems sells an expert system for newspaper layout [LEFF]) The Society of Manufacturing Engineers has formed an AI in Manufacturing Advisory Committee (contact Michael Tew 313 271-1500). Allen Bradley will have "knowledge base technologies" in their line of factory controllers. __________________________________________________________________________ Software Review of Knowledge Craft __________________________________________________________________________ California Intelligence is selling products that add frame and blackboard facilities to EXSYS, FRAME and TABLET respectively. They can also be used with other AI tools and even to mix AI tools with other applications. TABLET also allows the addition of variables to expert systems that do not have them. FRAME will call an outside program when the value of the slot is needed. __________________________________________________________________________ Other Material: Nihol Life, Japan, is developing an expert system that will assess the insurability of people with various medical conditions. Boeing has a Knowledge-Based System Center in Japan that provides info to various companies operating in Japanese, both American and Japan Fujitsu is including an expert system to help choose algorithms for image processing with its general purpose image processing system. Fujitsu will be selling an AI tool for its 68010 based engineering work station. Intellicorp will be entering the Japanese market on its own when its contract with CSK expires this November. SRI Cambridge will be organizing a multi-million dollar natural language effort in England. __________________________________________________________________________ BOOKs Reviewed Portraits of Success: Impressions of Silicon Valley by Carolyn Caddes On Machine Intelligence by Donald Michie