Industry is foreseeing rapid developments in the ability tocapture data within its manufacturing operations and the interest in methodsfor extracting knowledge from such data is increasing. Through digitalrepresentations of manufacturing operations, future scenarios can be modeledand developed with analysis tools based on simulation in combination withmulti-objective optimisation. The results from such analysis tools may bechallenging to interpret, especially when expanding the scope to searchingfor information patterns. An emerging multi-objective rule extraction method,with the ability to handle discrete input parameters, has been furtherdeveloped towards integration in an intelligent decision support system.