Development of Best Practices for Ship Recycling Processes
Development of Best Practices for Ship Recycling Processes
Development of Best Practices for Ship Recycling Processes
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Out <strong>of</strong> these types <strong>of</strong> expert system applications, General Advice type has been<br />
identified as the most relevant and suitable type having good scope <strong>of</strong> application in<br />
ship recycling. The need <strong>of</strong> the hour in ship recycling field is to implement the<br />
guidelines issued by various international conventions such as Marine Environmental<br />
Protection Committee, Marine Safety Committee, ILO and Basel. These conventions<br />
have put <strong>for</strong>ward various important recommendations regarding safety <strong>of</strong> personnel<br />
working at site, environmental protection, safety <strong>of</strong> machines and systems supporting<br />
the ship recycling activities and occupational health. Vast amount <strong>of</strong> in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
available in this connection have to be well presented to various stake holders in the<br />
ship recycling industry <strong>for</strong> making it more clean and safe. One <strong>of</strong> the best ways to<br />
implement it is to introduce this into a computer based knowledge base system and<br />
then by using an expert system( which arranges the relevant in<strong>for</strong>mation readily<br />
accessible to the various stakeholders) effectively address the requirements <strong>of</strong> ship<br />
recycling industry and this has been followed in the present study.<br />
5.5 KNOWLEDGE BASE OF THE SHIP RECYCLING SYSTEM<br />
<strong>Ship</strong> recycling is an engineering industry where various branches <strong>of</strong> knowledgebase<br />
such as science and technology, engineering, management, law, economics,<br />
commerce and political science have been involved. In<strong>for</strong>mation base <strong>of</strong> these<br />
branches <strong>of</strong> knowledge as applicable to the development <strong>of</strong> a comprehensive expert<br />
system <strong>for</strong> ship recycling has been identified developed and presented in table 5.1.<br />
Computer based expert system helps to provide recommendations <strong>for</strong> improving the<br />
situation in an identified investigation domain by collecting and analyzing data from<br />
the investigation area.<br />
The expert system, which is developed <strong>for</strong> the ship recycling practices has three major<br />
elements. viz, data base regarding ship (<strong>Ship</strong> Data), recommended practices and codes<br />
(Guidelines) and disassembly processes in ship recycling (<strong>Practices</strong>). The in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />
model <strong>for</strong> the expert system which is developed <strong>for</strong> ship recycling as a part <strong>of</strong> the<br />
present study is given fig. 5.3. Recommendations <strong>for</strong> best practices in ship recycling<br />
have been envisaged as the output from the expert system. <strong>Ship</strong> data and rules on ship<br />
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