Developing expert systems: a knowledge engineer's handbook for rules and objects
Developing expert systems: a knowledge engineer's handbook for rules and objects
Product family modeling for mass customization
ICC&IE Selected papers from the 22nd ICC&IE conference on Computers & industrial engineering
An Approach to Implement Feature-Based Applications Using Knowledge Aided Engineering Technology
FEATS '01 Proceedings of the IFIP TC5/WG5.2 & WG5.3 Conference on Feature Modelling and Advanced Design-for-the-Life-Cycle Systems: Feature Based Product Life-Cycle Modelling
How to Represent "Intelligent" Components in a Product Model
Proceedings of the IFIP TC5 WG5.2 Fourth Workshop on Knowledge Intensive CAD to Knowledge Intensive Engineering
Towards a general ontology of configuration
Artificial Intelligence for Engineering Design, Analysis and Manufacturing
An overview of knowledge‐based configuration
AI Communications
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The use of modularity in the design of a new product or the adoption of a product platform, as the base to define new solutions within a product family, offers the company a chance to meet diverse customer needs at low cost because of economies of scale in all phases of the product's life cycle. At present, the concept of modularity in product design is becoming widely used in many industries such as automobiles and consumer electronics. However, if modularity and mass customization have attracted the interest of industries and researchers, the greatest efforts have been focused on the theoretical aspect whereas the related design support technologies have been only partially implemented. In this context, our intent is to develop highly reusable models, which are able to reconfigure themselves on the basis of new functional requirements. The proposed approach is based on the definition of what we call self-configuring components and multiple-level functions. To describe the approach, a practical example related to the design of modules for woodworking machines is reported.