It is important to develop an application to manage knowledge for reusing as efficiently as possible. Knowledge management in advanced manufacturing industries is a complex process. In this paper, user needs for design knowledge management are gathered from interviews with users and during brainstorming sessions. The main requirements for design knowledge management are such as: design knowledge normalizing, design case normalizing, knowledge tracing, generating know-how knowledge, learning failure case knowledge, and design knowledge management in product lifecycle, etc. Knowledge application scenarios for a new paving machine design are studied which would enable software function development.

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As we all know, the whole life cycle of product knowledge reuse is the key to responded to market demanding, according to knowledge reuse of current research situation, this paper propose the idea of green of knowledge reuse and designs a green framework for the whole life cycle of knowledge reuse system. Accordance with operating mechanism of knowledge reuse system, we put forward a newly feasible structural framework for the knowledge reuse system. Applying for the software development platform of PowerBuilder and the database platform of SQL Server 2005 , we develop a prototype system of knowledge reuse.