Supporting collaborative process knowledge management in new product development teams
Decision Support Systems - From information retrieval to knowledge management: enabling technologies and best practices
The role of knowledge in next-generation product development systems
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
Introduction to ISO 10303—the STEP standard for product data exchange
Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering
What Are Ontologies, and Why Do We Need Them?
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Design Repositories: Engineering Design's New Knowledge Base
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Ontologies: How can They be Built?
Knowledge and Information Systems
Ontologies for supporting engineering analysis models
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Pellet: A practical OWL-DL reasoner
Web Semantics: Science, Services and Agents on the World Wide Web
MatML: XML for information exchange with materials property data
Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Data mining standards, services and platforms
Development of a product configuration system with an ontology-based approach
Computer-Aided Design
A methodology for engineering ontology acquisition and validation
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
A Decision Support Ontology for collaborative decision making in engineering design
CTS '09 Proceedings of the 2009 International Symposium on Collaborative Technologies and Systems
Semantic methods for intelligent distributed design environments
Semantic methods for intelligent distributed design environments
Improved knowledge management through first-order logic in engineering design ontologies
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
Ontological product modeling for collaborative design
Advanced Engineering Informatics
OntoSTEP: Enriching product model data using ontologies
Computer-Aided Design
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The engineering of laminated composite structures is a complex task for design engineers and manufacturers, requiring significant management of manufacturing process and materials information. Ontologies are becoming increasingly commonplace for semantically representing knowledge in a formal manner that facilitates sharing of rich information between people and applications. Moreover, ontologies can support first-order logic and reasoning by rule engines that enhance automation. To support the engineering of laminated composite structures, this work developed a novel Semantic LAminated Composites Knowledge management System (SLACKS) that is based on a suite of ontologies for laminated composites materials and design for manufacturing (DFM) and their integration into a previously developed engineering design framework. By leveraging information from CAD/FEA tools and materials data from online public databases, SLACKS uniquely enables software tools and people to interoperate, to improve communication and automate reasoning during the design process. With SLACKS, this paper shows the power of integrating relevant domains of the product life cycle, such as design, analysis, manufacturing and materials selection through the engineering case study of a wind turbine blade. The integration reveals a usable product-life-cycle knowledge tool that can facilitate efficient knowledge creation, retrieval and reuse from design inception to manufacturing of the product.