Causal Knowledge Integration Method for Product Design Simulation

Causal Product Knowledge Management

A Design Tool for Reusing Integration Knowledge in Simulation Models

In the academic field of computer-aided product development, the role of the design tool is to support engineering designers to develop and integrate simulation models. Used to save time and costs in product development process, the simulation model, however, introduces additional costs for its development and integration, which often become considerably large due to the fact that many, complex...

How PLM influences knowledge integration in new product development: a set-theoretic approach for causal analysis

This paper evaluates the effects of the use of Product Lifecycle Management and its three sub-systems Organizational Memory, Project and Resource Management and Cooperative Work systems on three components of knowledge integration in New Product Development: knowledge transfer, translation and transformation. A second aim of this paper is to explicate and discuss the use of the crisp set versio...

Product-Process Ontology for Managing Assembly Specific Knowledge Between Product Design and Assembly System Simulation

The aim of the present paper is to introduce a feature-based ProductProcess-System model and ontology in order to retrieve and share knowledge for simulation of manufacturing systems. Product knowledge is the combination of product specific information, such as functionality, colour and product variants, and the corresponding product model. The model provides understanding of the product struct...

WISE Design for Knowledge Integration

Scaling research-based curriculum to the multitude of science teaching standards and contexts has proven difficult in the past. To respond to the challenge, the Web-based Inquiry Science Environment (WISE) offers designers a technology-enhanced, research-based, flexibly adaptive learning environment. The learning environment can incorporate new features such as modeling tools or hand-held devic...