Survey of User Needs for Design Knowledge Management for Product Life Cycle

Abstract

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.