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SUMMARY:Knowledge Model for Managing Product Variety and its Reflective De
 sign - Dr. Yutaka Nomaguchi
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CONTACT:Julie Jupp
DESCRIPTION:Recent manufacturers have been utilizing product families to d
 iversify and enhance the product performance by simultaneously designing m
 ultiple products under commonalization and standardization. Design informa
 tion of product architecture and family is inevitably more complicated and
  numerous than that of a single product. Thus\, more sophisticated compute
 r-based support system is required for product architecture and family des
 ign. This paper proposes a knowledge model for a computer-based system to 
 support reflective process of designing product architecture and product f
 amily. This research focuses on three problems which should be overcome wh
 en product family are modeled in the computer system\; design repository w
 ithout data redundancy and incorrectness\, knowledge acquisition without f
 orcing the additional effort on the designer\, and integration of prescrip
 tive models to support early stages of the design process. An ontology tha
 t is a foundation of a knowledge model is defined to resolve these problem
 s. An example of designing an air conditioner product family is shown to d
 emonstrate the capability of the system.
LOCATION:EDC Loft Conference Room
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