Traceability and structuring of cooperative knowledge in design using PLM

Abstract

Expertise represents important capital in a company. The loss of this kind of knowledge has pushed companies to look for a means to capitalize on it so as to use in the future. In the design domain, many companies usually learn from previous similar experience, the designers develop an existing solution, or try to rework an old solution in order to adapt it to a new requirement. This tendency to reuse old solutions is strengthened by constraints of time, efficiency and search for maximum reliability. Therefore, the importance of the capitalization of design project knowledge is increasing more and more. This paper presents techniques to acquire and represent this type of knowledge in a design project memory, using Product Lifecycle Management platforms.

Keywords:

• knowledge engineering
• knowledge management
• project memory
• traceability
• Product Lifecycle Management

Acknowledgements

We thank The Champagne-Ardennes Region and FEDER, sponsors of this work.

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Notes on contributors

Nada Matta

About the authors

Nada Matta is a Professor at the University of Technology of Troyes. She studied techniques in knowledge engineering and management, especially to handle cooperative activities. She pursued her Ph.D. in knowledge engineering and Artificial Intelligence at University of Paul Sabatier in collaboration with ARTEMIS. She worked for 4 years at INRIA in projects with Dassault-Aviation and Airbus Industry. Currently, she is a Director of The Safety, Security and Control of Complex Systems Group (https://www.gis-3sgs.fr/).

Guillaume Ducellier

Guillaume Ducellier is an Assistant Professor at the University of Technology of Troyes. He pursued his Ph.D. in 2008 and his domains of interests cover: product lifecycle management, collaborative design and project reuse.

Chaker Djaiz

Chaker Djaiz is an Engineer Chief in the Cadesis company. He pursued his Ph.D. at 2007, on classification and aggregation of project knowledge. He worked on project Memory and PLM.