Computer system for casting defects classification based on Polish, French and Czech specifications

Many foundries existing in Poland make casts for local and external market. It is necessary to adopt a quality control to client's requirements. The main problem in the quality control of casting products is to detect and to classify properly defects. Polish defect classification is base nod the Polish Norm. In other countries (Czech Republic and France for example), other systems exist for classification, they are based on the different criteria and groups of defects. In other word the classification of casting defects is country-specific. Translation of defects names and their descriptions introduce additional level of difficulties. The authors propose multi-context system for finding equivalents of casting defects from one classification system to another, using original languages for each classification.