Knowledge-based environment to support product design validation

A Knowledge Based Environment Knowledge-Based Environment to Support Product Design Validation of Refresh Projects (projects with minor changes in respect to previous ones) has been developed on Teamcenter Platform (PLM software). Refresh Projects are around 60% of the total number of projects in the sponsoring company. This implementation will avoid repeating unnecessary and costly physical product tests saving time and costs by at least 10% for these Refresh Projects. The KBEnv has been developed by capturing the relation between design change of refresh projects with their required physical tests and the historical data of previous projects. The KBEnv framework has been implemented on Teamcenter Platform after standardising the documents and maintaining the traceability of decision making process. The KBEnv Framework Implementation is estimated to reduce the overall communication time by 52%, reduce the deviation in output by 45% and enhance confidence in decision making by 20 %. Keywords—Knowledge Based Environment, PLM, Teamcenter, Product design validation.