The global marketplace for materials and services requires providers to continually seek improvements in efficiency to maintain their competitive position. Advanced control systems, such as expert systems, adaptive control and adaptive control with learning capabilities, yield substantial increases in processing efficiency when properly implemented. Read more...

Real-time on-line adaptive control of processing systems is possible when the control algorithms include the ability to build multidimensional response surfaces the represent the processes being controlled. These response surfaces, or knowledgescapes, change in real time as processing conditions, process inputs and system parameters change.

KnowledgeScape® is unique in the world of real-time expert control systems because it is designed to control and optimize industrial processes using an integrated toolset of powerful artificial intelligent components. This integrated toolset contains a flexible expert control system that allows both crisp and fuzzy rules, on-line adaptive and competitive neural network models, and genetic algorithms for real-time optimization of the process. In addition to its use to optimize mineral processing plants it is also designed to embed intelligence into any piece of complex processing equipment. Read more...

While used very successfully in process control for some time in Japan [Fur94] fuzzy logic is
still relatively new in other parts of the world. This paper describes some of the workings of fuzzy logic and demonstrates the basics of a fuzzy SAG mill control system. Read more...

Expert control of grinding and flotation plants has been successfully used in the minerals industry since the 1970’s. Read more...

Expert control of grinding and flotation plants has been successfully used in the minerals industry since the 1970’s. The earliest of these systems were written in a hard-coded fashion in FORTRAN, BASIC or Pascal. Second generation systems were built using the first experimental expert system shells that were being developed in the artificial intelligence community. Read more...

Files available from KnowledgeScape can now be found at our new downloads page.

These files include a demonstration version of KSX our Adaptive Optimization and Process Control software, installation and reference manuals, as well as papers on Fuzzy Logic Control, Neural Network Modeling, and Genetic Algorithm Optimization.

As a process control or expert systems solution provider you solve problems. KSX is the ultimate problem solving tool for making you more money.

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In general neural networks are simply mathematical techniques designed to accomplish a variety of tasks. Neural networks can be configured in various arrangements to perform a range of tasks including pattern recognition, data mining, classification, and process modeling. The later is the primary interest in this context and although the types and topologies of neural networks (NN) vary greatly in the field, by far the most commonly used type of neural network, particularly in process control, is the feed-forward, back-propagation NN. Read more...