Knowledge Intensive Computer Aided Design

Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology plays a key role in today's advanced manufacturing environment. To reduce the time to market, achieve zero defect quality the at first production, and use available production and logistics resources effectively, product and design process knowledge covering the whole product life cycle must be used throughout product design. Once generated, this intensive design knowledge should be made available to later life cycle activities. Due to the increasing concern about global environmental issues and rapidly changing economical situation worldwide, design must exhibit high performance not only in quality and productivity, but also in life cycle issues, including extended producer's liability. This requires designers and engineers to use various kinds of design knowledge intensively during product design and to generate design information for use in later stages of the product life cycle such as production, distribution, operation, maintenance, reclamation, and recycling. Therefore, future CAD systems must incorporate product and design process knowledge, which is not explicitly dealt with in the current systems, in their design tools and design object models.

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Susan Finger is a Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA. Tetsuo Tomiyama is a Professor at RACE, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Martti Mäntylä is a Professor at the Laboratory of Information Processing Science, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland.

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Computer Aided Design (CAD) technology plays a key role in today's advanced manufacturing environment. To reduce the time to market, achieve zero defect quality the at first production, and use available production and logistics resources effectively, product and design process knowledge covering the whole product life cycle must be used throughout product design. Once generated, this intensive design knowledge should be made available to later life cycle activities. Due to the increasing concern about global environmental issues and rapidly changing economical situation worldwide, design must exhibit high performance not only in quality and productivity, but also in life cycle issues, including extended producer's liability. This requires designers and engineers to use various kinds of design knowledge intensively during product design and to generate design information for use in later stages of the product life cycle such as production, distribution, operation, maintenance, reclamation, and recycling. Therefore, future CAD systems must incorporate product and design process knowledge, which is not explicitly dealt with in the current systems, in their design tools and design object models.

Inhalt
One: Report on Workshop.- Knowledge Intensive Computer Aided Design: Past, Present and Future.- Two: Invited Talk.- 2. Supporting the Knowledge Life-Cycle.- Three: Ontology.- 3. Ontological Commitments in Knowledge-Based Design Software: A Progress Report.- 4. Classification of Knowledge for Generating Engineering Models: A Case Study of Model Generation in Finite Element Analysis.- 5. Design History System: Data Models & Prototype Implementation.- Four: Knowledge Intensive CAD (MC).- 6. Modeling of Product Life-cycle Knowledge and Data for an Intelligent Concurrent Design System.- 7. Model Sharing among Agents in a Concurrent Product Development Team.- 8. Design-to-Manufacture Information Transfer in the Context of Solid Freeform Fabrication Technologies.- 9. An Application of the Knowledge Intensive Engineering Framework to Building Foundation Design.- Five: Knowledge Intensive Design (MD).- 10. Supporting Conceptual Design: A Model for Reflective-Interactive Design.- 11. A Knowledge Based Engineering Application to Support Weight Distribution Analysis for IRL Cars.- 12. Lens Barrel Design Based On Distributed Knowledge-Base.- Six: Knowledge Representation for MC.- 13. Guiding Agent Learning in Design.- 14. A KICAD Tool For Pro-Active Exploration Support To 'Design Synthesis For Multi-X'.- Author index.- Keyword index.