Ontology-Based Knowledge Management Systems for the New Product Development Acceleration: Case of a Community of Designers of Automotives

Abstract

Knowledge management is important for the knowledge storage and organization. Otherwise information about new product development can be dispersed or lost, thus, finding efficient manners to store knowledge in order to be able to search for it and retrieve it is necessary. Ontology is a good solution for the structuring of information and knowledge and especially in specific cases as communities of practice. In this paper, we present the followed methodology for the modeling of the ontology and the technological architecture of a knowledge management system (KMS), based on this ontology, to facilitate knowledge sharing within special communities. The modeling technique is the IDEF0 methodology, the ontology is codified using the OWL language and the KMS is supported by the OC4J of the J2EE server.

Study on the Organization Model for the Design Process Modular of Complex Mechanical Product

“…In the knowledge representation and organizational ways of domestic and foreign scholars have made many of further research. LIN Hui-ping [2] study on Meta-model-based knowledge management in product design; YE Fan-bo [3] study on Knowledge map, put knowledge instances to the knowledge map; TuLi [4] studied complex product design knowledge organization mode based on the knowledge template, use knowledge templates to describe the function-behavior-structure model of complex product design stage; GuLiangFeng [5] studied enterprise knowledge of modular structure model, have specific part of functions knowledge, such as the product of a function, set into a knowledge module, in order to realize efficient knowledge management; Cisternino [6] studied based on ontology organization of product design knowledge method; ANN MAJCHRZAK [7] studied according to the templates, sample and existing solutions organization of product design knowledge method.…”