Collaborative Research: Architecting Design Repositories - Product Modeling, Exchange and Reuse

该研究项目的目标是创建、开发和传播一个设计存储库框架，该框架促进了行业和设计研究社区建模、交换和重用产品设计信息的能力。与传统的设计数据库相比，设计存储库不仅可以作为存档，还可以作为异构知识和数据的存储库，支持企业设计知识的表示、捕获、共享和重用。为了创建存储库框架，将通过对100-200个现有产品的基础和系统研究，对设计功能、产品架构和形式的表示和建模进行基础研究。美国国家标准与技术研究所将以计算、应用中立的格式传播研究结果。如果成功，研究结果将以功能和产品架构表示的形式为设计界提供基础知识。最重要的是，结果将以两种方式改善工业中的产品设计：(1)通过开发基本的技术基础设施来支持工业中设计存储库的创建和使用，以及(2)通过向工业提供对设计信息的访问，以便在他们必须在其开发中投入重大努力之前展示这些存储库的价值。因此，除了在设计存储库领域贡献基础研究成果之外，这项研究还将产生一系列领域特定的原型存储库，这些原型存储库将通过万维网在线提供。研究结果还为在设计和开发过程的早期使用类比设计、产品架构、为装配而设计和制造技术打开了大门。

The objective of this research project is to create, develop, and disseminate a design-repository framework that advances industry's and the design research community's ability to model, exchange, and reuse product design information. In contrast to traditional design databases, design repositories serve not only as archives, but also serve as repositories of heterogeneous knowledge and data that support representation, capture, sharing, and reuse of corporate design knowledge. To create the repository framework, basic research will be performed in the representation and modeling of design function, product architectures, and form through a fundamental and systematic study of 100-200 current products. The National Institute of Standards and Technology will disseminate the research results within a computational, application-neutral format.If successful, the results of the research will contribute fundamental knowledge in the form of function and product-architecture representations to the design community. Most importantly, the results will improve product design in industry in two ways: (1) by developing a basic technological infrastructure to support the creation and use of design repositories in industry, and (2) by providing industry with access to design information in order to demonstrate the value of these repositories before they have to invest significant effort in their development. Thus, in addition to contributing basic research results in the area of design repositories, the research will produce sets of domain-specific prototype repositories that will be made available online via the world wide web. The results also open the doors to using design-by-analogy, product architecting, and design-for-assembly and manufacturing techniques early in the design and development process.