Integration of Design Tools and Knowledge Capture into a CAD System: A Case Study

Conceptual design phase Is partially supported by product Iifecycie management/computer-aided design (PLM/CAD) systems causing discontinuity of the design Information flow: customer needs functional requirements key characteristics design parameters (DPs) geometric DPs. Aiming to address this Issue, It is proposed a knowledge-based approach is proposed to Integrate quality function deployment, failure mode and effects analysis, and axiomatic design Into a commercial PLM/CAD system. A case study, main subject of this article, was carried out to validate the proposed process, to evaluate, by a pilot development, how the commercial PLM/CAD modules and application programming Interface could support the information flow, and based on the pilot scheme results to propose a full development framework.