An expert system application for determination of woven fabric defects and removing trigerring factors

In textile products, several defects and non-conformities occur because of various faults faced in fabric production. The determination of the source of these faults are important for solving the problem and preventing the recurrence of defects. Every individual fault slows down the production and also affects the fabric quality in negative way. In order to solve the problems efficiently, an access to the knowledge of expert is vitally important. A chance of reaching expert people is difficult due to the limited number of experts and to relatively higher costs. Hence, this project is focused on the development of an expert system which can diagnose fabric defects and provide alternative solution for remedy of the faults. Thanks to the development of such an expert system, fabric manufacturers shall be able to use a common terminology for identifying fabric defects and shall have a chance of lowering the manufacturing cost by utilising the hints for removal of faults. The photographs of fabric defects are also incorporated into the expert system to facilitate the matching of fabric defects. Additionally, a systematic approach for identifying reasons of fabric defects as well as for finding possible solution methods for elimination of faults has been successfully developed and introduced to the technical literature.