Development of an Expert System for ISO 14001
The ISO 14001 standard is designed to assist organisations in implementing and maintaining Environmental Management System (EMS), verifying conformance with their environmental policies and objectives and demonstrating such conformance to other organisations via certification by a third party or...
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| Format: | Thesis |
| Language: | English English |
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1999
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| Online Access: | http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/10451/1/FK_1999_40_A.pdf |
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| Summary: | The ISO 14001 standard is designed to assist organisations in implementing
and maintaining Environmental Management System (EMS), verifying conformance
with their environmental policies and objectives and demonstrating such conformance
to other organisations via certification by a third party or via self-declaration. It is
applicable to organisations of all sizes, types and locations and will be used to improve
environmental performance by integrating designated EMS with existing management
policies and procedures.
The main objectives of Expert System for ISO 14001 (ESISO) are to help the
end-users in gaining information on ISO 14000 and EMS and to create EMS
documentation as well as to help the application process of the company. CLIPS version 6.04 was chosen for logic based knowledge representation in implementing
ESISO.
The results show that the reliability of the Expert System (ES) was able to help
the end-users to create EMS documentation and to obtain information on ISO 14000
as well as EMS. Information of ISO 14000 and EMS were validated using the
information from various sources such as SIRIM, Singapore Productivity and
Standards Board pamphlet, books and Internet. ESISO managed to show a 95%
matching between the ESISO consultation and these sources. EMS documentation of a
certified company was used to validate the EMS requirements that were incorporated
in the ESISO. Therefore, for the case of that company ESISO consultation matched
with this existing documentation.
The usefulness of the knowledge-based system depends on the degree to which
the task it is reviewing is systematic. However, in environmental planning and
engineering, it is difficult for planners and engineers to agree on the solution provided
by ES, mainly because their subjective judgement can differ greatly from each other
and the knowledge base used by the expertise tends to be extracted from various
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