Knowledge engineering in design

Knowledge Technologies in Engineering Design

Engineering Design Knowledge Management

In recent years, greater global competition is pressuring organizations to produce industrial products with the shortest possible lead times, high quality, and lowest costs. The lifecycle of a product includes many phases such as requirement definition, conceptual design, production, operation, maintenance, and so forth. Each phase in the lifecycle would involve the product information, for exa...

Engineering Design Knowledge Management for Conceptual Design

The early stages of engineering design are critical, as the highlevel decisions made at this point have the most impact on the final product’s design, cost, and success. However, little software is available to support engineers during the initial, conceptual design phase. In addition, at this and all other stages of design, engineers are increasingly tasked with utilizing unwieldy collections ...

Knowledge Management In The Engineering Design Environment

The Aerospace and Defense industry is experiencing an increasing loss of knowledge through workforce reductions associated with business consolidation and retirement of senior personnel. Significant effort is being placed on process definition as part of ISO certification and, more recently, CMMI certification. The process knowledge in these efforts represents the simplest of engineering knowle...

Design Repositories: Engineering Design's New Knowledge Base

DESIGN OF COMPLEX ENGINEERing systems has increasingly become a collaborative task among teams that are physically, geographically, and temporally separated. The complexity of modern products means that a single designer or design team can no longer manage the complete product development effort. An enterprise that tries to develop products without sufficient expertise in a broad set of discipl...