Deployment of an ontological framework of functional design knowledge
Deployment of an ontological framework of functional design knowledge
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10.1016/j.aei.2004.09.002
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2004-04
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Y. Kitamura;Masakazu Kashiwase;Masayoshi Fuse;R. Mizoguchi
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作者：
Y. Kitamura;Masakazu Kashiwase;Masayoshi Fuse;R. Mizoguchi
虽然设计师之间的知识共享的重要性已被广泛认可，在概念设计阶段的功能知识是很难捕捉，往往是分散在技术领域。为了获取这些易于应用于其他领域的功能性知识，我们建立了一个本体框架来系统地描述这些知识，它包括六种功能性知识，即两种功能性模型、两种通用知识组织方式和两种功能性本体。本文报告了成功部署的框架在一个生产公司。住友电气工业的工厂和生产系统工程部门自2001年5月以来一直使用我们的框架来分享生产系统的功能设计知识。住友的工程师们的经验评估一致是积极的。他们说，这个框架使他们能够使每个设计师所拥有的隐性知识显性化，并在团队成员之间共享。本文讨论了设计审查、专利申请和解决质量问题等任务中的一些成功用例。我们还讨论了我们的本体框架作为一个一致的观点捕捉隐式功能知识和设计师之间的概念中间语的影响。我们的框架的局限性进行了讨论。
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 often scattered across technical domains. Aimed at capturing such functional knowledge that can easily be applied to other domains, we developed an ontological framework to systematically describe it. It includes six kinds of knowledge about functionality, i.e. two types of functional models, two types of organization of generic knowledge, and two ontologies of functionality. This paper reports on the successful deployment of the framework in a production company. The Plant and Production Systems Engineering Division of Sumitomo Electric Industries has used our framework to share functional design knowledge on production systems since May, 2001. An empirical evaluation by Sumitomo's engineers was unanimously positive. They said that this framework enabled them to make implicit knowledge possessed by each designer explicit and to share it among team members. This paper discusses some successful use-cases in tasks such as a design review, a patent application, and solving a quality problem. We also discuss effects of our ontological framework as a consistent viewpoint for capturing implicit functional knowledge and as a conceptual interlingua among designers. The limitations of our framework are also discussed.