A procedure-oriented generic bill of materials
Computers and Industrial Engineering
An integrity constraint management framework in engineering design
Computers in Industry - Special issue: CSCW in design
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Constraint capture and maintenance in engineering design
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Computer-Aided Design
Advanced Engineering Informatics
A critical review of Knowledge-Based Engineering: An identification of research challenges
Advanced Engineering Informatics
Hi-index | 0.00 |
Design knowledge reuse is widely accepted as an effective strategy for designers to develop robust artifacts with less time and lower cost. However, there has been very little research on how to help designers capture detailed design knowledge for reuse. As a result, most detailed design knowledge still has to remain in designers' memories as tacit knowledge, which can easily get lost due to oblivion or the mobility of designers. Therefore, this paper attempts to develop a part affordance-based approach for externalizing and capturing detailed design knowledge for effective reuse. It first introduces a part model for representing the detailed design-related information. Based on the relational theory for design, the concept, part affordance, is then employed to help designers externalize and capture various lifecycle factors that are implicit in a detailed design. Based on the affordance constraint axiom, a systematic approach is then proposed for deriving tacit design knowledge from captured part affordances through the analysis of extreme working situations. The proposed approach has been implemented as the Design Knowledge-Capturing System (DKCS). A fixture design case has been employed to illustrate the proposed approach.