Knowledge use in an advanced manufacturing environment

Using visual information analysis to explore complex patterns in the activity of designers

“…Further to this, Keller et al (2007) highlight the complexity of Internet based information seeking activities. However, due to this complexity it has been difficult to explore this activity in detail, with even the most recent studies focusing on characterising activity in terms of total time allocation (aggregated over a whole study) (Reed, et al, 2011).…”

“…Information seeking plays a key role in engineering design practice (Reed, et al, 2011;Robinson, 2010) accounting for between approximately 20% (Court, et al, 1998;Reed, et al, 2011) and over 60% (King, et al, 1994;Robinson, 2010) of engineers' time. Although this has been the case for many years (Cave & Noble, 1986;Puttre, 1991) the increasing importance and impact of Internet--based information seeking is, as yet, little understood.…”

A mobile application for knowledge-enriched short-term scheduling of complex products

“…In addition to these techniques, group technology could be also utilised in order to minimise the makespan and the sum of the completion times of a generated schedule based on position-dependent learning effects [22]. Concluding, according to [23], research should be shifted more towards knowledge reuse for decision support tools, within safety, reliability, and maintainability. Several of the above-mentioned studies utilise knowledge reuse techniques to improve scheduling performance.…”

The reuse of machining knowledge to improve designer awareness through the configuration of knowledge libraries in PLM

“…This is partly due to the specific nature of the context in which the knowledge is captured. In fact, Marsh (1997), McMahon, Lowe, and Culley (2004), Baxter et al (2007), Robinson (2010) and Reed et al (2010) state that somewhere between 10% to 30% of a designer's time is spent acquiring and providing information. To quote Teece (2000, 38) knowledge "is of little value if not supplied to the right people at the right time".…”

“…The academic literature points towards major research efforts focused upon the concepts of sharing and reusing design information and knowledge in collaborative environments (Hall 1999;Lynne 2001;Costa and Young 2001;Dani et al 2006;Liu and Young 2007;Zdrahal et al 2007;Ong et al 2006;Baxter et al 2007;Berkani and Chikh 2010;Reed et al 2010;Mok et al 2011). Additionally there are some good examples of sharing and reusing knowledge between the disciplines of design and manufacturing to facilitate multi context knowledge sharing Gunendran 2007, 2010;Chungoora et al 2013).…”