A RFBSE model for capturing engineers’ useful knowledge and experience during the design process

Abstract

Reuse of designers' knowledge and experience of solving problems during the engineering design process holds the key to increase efficiency of decision making in future projects. An important part of this useful knowledge and experience is the interpretation of data and information about design objects and processes as well as the generation of new information for decision-making. However, previous studies on knowledge representation models have mainly focused on developing a structure to describe the knowledge about design objects and design processes while a systematic method that can effectively integrate knowledge about design objects and knowledge about problem-solving strategies is still missing. To fill this gap, a RFBSE knowledge representation model for capturing useful design knowledge and experience for future reuse is developed and evaluated in this study. This paper describes the key elements of this model, explains the rationale of using particular elements, and discusses the evaluation of the model using an engineering design example.

A collaborative system for capturing and reusing in-context design knowledge with an integrated representation model

“…Tacit knowledge resides in a community's know-how which can be market-based (in products), infrastructure-based (in systems), personal (concerning staff and competence of suppliers) or administrative (concerning workflow and processes) [2]. The term 'knowledge model' has been used to refer to an information representation scheme for facilitating codification [12], [16], [28]- [30]. In this paper, unless otherwise stated, formal knowledge is used to describe engineering know-what and know-how embodied in codified information sources such as a 3D geometric model, a simulation model, a data-accessing source (e.g.…”

“…This results in either the tools based on formal models failing to capture useful context or the tools using informal models being not an integral part of design [14], [21]. To enable effective reuse, integrated models are required for next-generation KM tools to capture knowledge that is related to the evolution of design models and has rich context for retrieval and reuse [21], [28], [29]. Knowledge retrieval is also of significant importance to KM tools.…”

Knowledge push technology based on quality function knowledge deployment

“…4 How to get effective knowledge from a large number of knowledge resources to assist product design process has become an urgent issue to be solved in the aided innovation design system. 5…”

“…4 How to get effective knowledge from a large number of knowledge resources to assist product design process has become an urgent issue to be solved in the aided innovation design system. 5 Knowledge push technology can effectively provide the corresponding design knowledge for designers to assist them to carry out innovative design, which has drawn wide attention from scholars and experts. Related research on knowledge push mainly concentrates on the following aspects.…”

Self-similar Computing Structures for CPSs: A Case Study on POTS Service Process

“…Therefore, the Value Stream Map (VSMap) became the base of the development of the knowledge representation method and coupled with the database-centric techniques [1,2], which are extended to cover the multidisciplinary aspects of tiny agents imitating the knowledge of production or services process experts. This multidisciplinary method will follow the state-of-the-art approaches [3,4] that capture human experts' decisions, data and actions into the structured knowledge in order to render human and machines collaborative agents in the process design and problem solving. The used case will be conducted on an already well-tested and established procedure for plain old telephone services (POTS) [5].…”