Integrating Case-Based Reasoning and Hypermedia
Documentation: An Application for the Diagnosis of a
Welding Robot at Odense Steel Shipyard

Eric Auriol1, Richard M. Crowder2, Rob MacKendrick3, Roger Rowe4 and Thomas
Knudsen5

1 AcknoSoft, 15 rue Soufflot, 75 005 Paris, France, auriol@ibpc.fr
2 Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK,
SO17 1BJ, rmc1@soton.ac.uk
2 Parallel Applications	Centre, Chilworth, Southampton, SO167NS, UK,
rmk@pac.soton.ac.uk
4 MultiCosm Ltd, Chilworth, Southampton, SO167NS, UK, R.Rowe@multicosm.com
5 Odense Steel Shipyard Ltd, P0 Box 176, DK 5100 Odense C, Denmark, tdk@oss.dk



Abstract. Reliable and effective maintenance support is a vital consideration
for the management within todays manufacturing environment. This paper discusses 
the development a maintenance system for the world largest robot
welding facility. The developed system combines a case-based reasoning approach 
for diagnosis with context information, as electronic on-line manuals,
linked using open hypermedia technology. The work discussed in this paper
delivers not only a maintenance system for the robot stations under consideration, 
but also a design framework for developing maintenance systems for other
similar applications.
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