Introduction (2)

• Automation would increase the speed and reduce the cost of development by decreasing the amount of time needed from experts and knowledge engineers.
• Automation could also uncover knowledge that might otherwise be overlooked by those involved in the knowledge acquisition process.
• Thus, machine learning can help to systematise and make the knowledge that is embedded in manufacturing data more explicit.
• A great deal of research in machine learning has focused on classification, the task of developing a model, from a set of previously classified examples, that can correctly categorise new examples from the same population.
• Many manufacturing problems fall under the category of classification.