Knowledge-Intensive CAD: Introduction and a Research Agenda (original) (raw)
The ultimate goal of advanced computer-aided design technologies is to facilitate effective product design and manufacturing activities in industrial companies through the whole lifecycle of industrial products. A central means for achieving this long-term goal is turning various types of knowledge on industrial products, their manufacture, use, maintenance, and other life-cycle activities into a reusable resource for the company, and deploying the resulting life-cycle knowledge during product development and manufacture, particularly the early design stages. It is claimed that these two-knowledge capitalisation and knowledge deployment-are essential characteristics of a Knowledge-Intensive CAD environment. Based on this view, the paper will discuss some of the characteristics, issues, and challenges of knowledge-intensive CAD systems, and give a draft research agenda for future. T. Tomiyama et al. (eds.