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Names, Part Numbers & AI
digitalcarbon
Member Posts: 91 PRO
If you really wanted to put AI to good use then it's first task is you would be able to talk to it about how to name everything, add descriptions and work up a part numbering system..
the ability to take a completed project, say 5 years (a design could be sold to another company), and say "let's review the numbering system and come up with a better system, and then fix it" would be revolutionary.
If the "5 years" sound like too much then you could have the AI looking back every few months at the start of the project, making suggestions. This would allow everyone to get on with the work without spending a few days wringing ones hands trying to delvelope the ultimate system.
Comments
Partly this is why with all the databases I've set up I stuck to the dumbest numbering scheme which I maintain is the smartest numbering scheme. Spooling numbers that just go up. Too many times I've had people come up with "clever" ideas for one reason or another that were incompatible with some other numbering priority. It's all just a lookup number in the end.
Derek Van Allen | Engineering Consultant | Meddler@Derek_Van_Allen_BD , ok i get that…but the part numbers on this large project tie into the operation manual, the stream schematics and the actual parts and assemblies. So for a steam line, I need to call it Main-Steam-001 vs 1258625854.
Then later, after we get into the flow of things, this turns into MS-AA-VALVE-001 to show that the part is Main Steam-Portside turbine Portside of the turbine-Valve-001.
Hence the request.