Ontological product modeling for collaborative design

  • Authors:

  • Conrad Bock;XuanFang Zha;Hyo-won Suh;Jae-Hyun Lee

  • Affiliations:

  • U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., MS 8263, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8263, USA;U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., MS 8263, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8263, USA;Department of Industrial System Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, 373-1, Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejon 305-701, Republic of Korea;U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Dr., MS 8263, Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8263, USA

  • Venue:
  • Advanced Engineering Informatics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

This paper shows how to combine ontological and model-based techniques in languages that facilitate collaborative design exploration. The proposed approach uses ontology to capture alternative designs and incremental refinements that meet requirements and earlier design commitments. Model-based techniques are applied to develop more powerful, engineering-friendly languages for using ontology. It uses ontology's open world semantics to support design collaboration with flexible and accurate design combination, refinement, and consistency checking. It also leads to more reliable interpretation of models across the product lifecycle due to more rigorous language semantics. An example language is described using these techniques.