Although the importance of knowledge sharing among designers has been widely recognized, knowledge about functionality in the conceptual design phase is hard to capture and is oft...
Abstract. This paper discusses problems of creating and using ontology library services in production use. One approach to a solution is presented with an online implementation—t...
Abstract. Today's manufacturing industry demands flexible and decentralized production control systems to avoid hours of down time of the production line in case of a failure ...
There is a trend in some manufacturing industries to move from selling products to providing services. As a result, designers must consider the life-cycle costs. In the aero indust...
More and more product development projects involve geographically distributed groups of developers. One problem in such groups is the long term lack of awareness of the activities ...