The increased accessibility of data that computers provide has caused a range of expert and information-retrieval systems to be designed in all areas of knowledge, including corrosion knowledge. In that light, an analysis is made of corrosion information and what is needed in the process industry. It is shown that expert systems should be business- related, i.e. both the information storage and the retrieval method should be brought in close relation with the business of the users of the system. A new bussiness-related corrosion expert system provides expert knowledge about specific plants and equipment, has superior accessibility and can stay, as a dynamic system, comfortably ahead of the state-of-the-art.

Subject
Steel structures, Organizations, Materials, Industries, Structures, Inspection, Mechanical failure, Engineering, Equipment, Corrosion data, Engineers, Maintenance, Stress corrosion cracking
Keywords:
corrosion, inspection, maintenance, expert system, process industry, oracle, information retrieval, knowledge base, records
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1992
Association for Materials Protection and Performance (AMPP)
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