The package can also be used to design industrial products, which are based on revisions or updates of others already available within an organisation. It has been in use by a number of industries throughout Britain and Europe since 1979.

AN EXPERT SYSTEM FOR JOB EVALUATION

This package offers a new method for ranking professions according to the demand they impose upon the individual. Its success lies on the fact that it eliminates subjective information, as much as possible, through comparative assessment and objective statistical ranking techniques.

PRODUCTION CONTROL - SPECIFICATION OF WORK-TICKETS

In many industrial environments and where the constituent parts of mass produced items have to be bundled together for efficient production control, it becomes necessary to provide complete and up-to-date information for shop-floor operatives. This system (commissioned by WIRA Research Association) enables the operator to, (a) specify the constituent parts of a production line, (b) create appropriate tuples for customer orders, and (c) produce complete work-tickets for shop-floor operatives. The work-tickets provide information on individual orders, bundle sizes, expected time for the completion of individual bundles, and pay rates.

A COMPUTERISED REAL ESTATE SYSTEM (ACRES)

The system enables the storage, analysis and retrieval of information on estates and general properties under development, and performs optimisation functions as well as cash flow analyses.

NORMALISATION OF INDUSTRIAL SUBSCRIPTIONS

The aim of the project has been to devise a scheme whereby several hundred industries can share a given budget on the basis of their annual wages and annual turnover. An iterative technique has been implemented to distribute the budget over the industries concerned, in an optimal fashion, by utilising 'objective' production parameters. The system was commissioned by the Confederation of British Wool Textiles which is based at Bradford.