There is no doubt that Design Technology plays a key role in today's
advanced product development environment. To reduce the time to market,
achieve zero defect quality the first time, and use available production
and logistics resources effectively, product and design process
knowledge covering the whole product life cycle must be efficiently and
effectively used during product design. With greater emphasis over the
last decade on better functionally, cheaper and greener man-made
objects, understanding how to systematically capture, structure and
proactively reuse product life cycle knowledge is becoming more and more
a necessity if we are to effectively and efficiently support such an
industrial requirement.
Knowledge Intensive Design Technology is a collection of papers
presented at the Fifth Workshop on Knowledge Intensive CAD, which was
sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing
(IFIP) Working Group 5.2 and hosted by the Department of Manufacturing
Engineering at the University of Malta in July 2002.
The book chapters progressively take the reader through the following
sequential sections;
-Part One - KIC Development Approaches,
-Part Two - Knowledge Systematization,
-Part Three - Prototype KIC Systems.
Knowledge Intensive Design Technology makes essential reading for
practicing engineers/scientists involved in R&D as well as for relevant
Masters and Ph.D. students. The book is also pertinent to those in
industry concerned with capturing and structuring company-specific
knowledge for proactive reuse to increase product development
efficiency, and also to those involved in the development of CAD
systems.