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The paper introduces Multi-Agent Knowledge Analysis (MAKA), a human-in-the-loop architecture that decomposes complex manufacturing decisions into intent routing, quantitative analysis, knowledge graph retrieval, and critic-based verification steps. MAKA enforces physical plausibility, safety bounds, and provenance completeness in CNC machining, addressing the limitations of LLMs in risk-constrained numerical workflows. Experiments on a Ti-6Al-4V rotor blade machining testbed demonstrate MAKA improves tool execution success by up to 87.5% and reduces predicted surface deviation by an order of magnitude in simulation.
LLMs can't reliably orchestrate multi-step manufacturing workflows, but this physics-grounded multi-agent system can, boosting tool execution success by 87.5% while ensuring traceable, risk-aware decisions.
High-precision CNC machining of free-form aerospace components requires bounded compensations informed by inspection, simulation, and process knowledge. Off-the-shelf large language model (LLM) assistants can generate text, but they do not reliably execute risk-constrained multi-step numerical workflows or provide auditable provenance for high-stakes decisions. We present multi-agent knowledge analysis (MAKA), a human-in-the-loop decision-support architecture that separates intent routing, tools-only quantitative analysis, knowledge graph retrieval, and critic-based verification that enforces physical plausibility, safety bounds, and provenance completeness before recommendations are surfaced for human approval. MAKA is instantiated on a Ti-6Al-4V rotor blade machining testbed by fusing virtual-machining path-tracking error fields, cutting-force and deflection simulations, and scan-based 3D inspection deviation maps from 16 blades. The analysis decomposes deviation into an evidence-linked pathing component, a drift-based wear proxy capturing systematic evolution across parts, a residual systematic compliance term, and a variability proxy for instability-aware escalation. In a three-level tool-orchestration benchmark (single-step through $\geq$3-step stateful sequences), MAKA improves successful tool execution by up to 87.5 percentage points relative to an unstructured single-model interaction pattern with identical tool access. Digital twin what-if studies show MAKA can coordinate traceable compensation candidates that reduce predicted surface deviation from order $10^{-2}$in to approximately $\pm 10^{-3}$in over most of the blade within the simulation environment, providing a pre-deployment verification signal for risk-aware human decision-making.
