Knowledge Intensive Computer Aided Design (Hardcover)

Susan Finger

ISBN 10: 0792386949 / ISBN 13: 9780792386940

Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1999

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Hardcover. This work is based on the premise that life-cycle knowledge regarding the product and design process must be incorporated in the centre of CAD architecture. It focuses on the systematization and sharing of knowledge of many types in many places and is concerned with knowledge management over product life-cycle. The topics covered here include: ontology; knowledge-intensive CAD (KIC); knowledge-intensive design (KID); and knowledge representation for KIC. The papers represent some of the proceedings of the Third Workshop on Knowledge Intensive CAD, sponsored by Working Group 5.2 of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and held on December 1--4, 1998 in Tokyo, Japan. 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowledge Intensive Computer Aided Design (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792386949
• ISBN 13: 9780792386940
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.