Cooperative Knowledge Processing for Engineering Design

✍ Scribed by M. E. Merchant (auth.), Arthur B. Baskin, George Kovács, Gianni Jacucci (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1999
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 413
• Series: IFIP — The International Federation for Information Processing 5
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Cooperative working environments and their development are becoming increasingly important and ever more frequent in different industrial sectors and this book provides a scientific approach for managing Team Engineering. Meta-cognitive knowledge and networks are identified as the key resources enabling engineering teams to work effectively and to reduce engineering time and this book illustrates how computer support can aid cooperative work within the context of practical methodologies and examples.
The fields covered in the book include:

• State-of-the-art research in cooperative learning tools;
• Practical examples and methodologies illustrating the implementation of cooperative networks; and
• An interdisciplinary approach to team engineering.

This valuable new book is sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and will be essential reading for researchers, engineers, technical managers involved in the development of advanced applications for engineering and manufacturing, and software design and engineering.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xx
Front Matter....Pages 1-2
Manufacturing systems in the 21st century....Pages 3-15
Complexity of manufacturing systems-subject oriented knowledge processing and control....Pages 17-42
Front Matter....Pages 43-46
A unified decision support tool for product management....Pages 47-59
Knowledge organisation and govern-for-flexibility in manufacturing....Pages 61-82
Comparison of decentralised and centralised computer-based production control....Pages 83-91
Front Matter....Pages 93-95
Enterprise integration with agent-based engineering data management....Pages 97-108
Collaborative capture of geometry rationale....Pages 109-117
Design knowledge representation, retrieval and delivery for co-operative knowledge processing....Pages 119-143
Application of an object repository as an example of co-operative knowledge processing....Pages 145-160
Supporting early design stages of technical systems by knowledge-based simulation....Pages 161-175
Front Matter....Pages 177-180
The transaction costs analysis of the customer-supplier relationships in product development....Pages 181-204
A discourse model for collaborative design....Pages 205-224
Unified Representation systems for different levels of abstraction....Pages 225-235
Information management for cooperative engineering....Pages 237-261
Flexible manufacturing system simulation using Sentinel — an active object oriented database management system....Pages 263-284
Front Matter....Pages 285-287
Engineering plasma spray films by knowledge based simulation....Pages 289-305
Co-operation via conflicts in manufacturing systems....Pages 307-324
Using joint responsibility to coordinate collaborative problem solving in dynamic environments....Pages 325-339
Product modelling and model based product realisation....Pages 341-357
From tools to glue....Pages 359-372
Front Matter....Pages 285-287
Expanding the design space through innovative design and manufacturing processes....Pages 373-406

✦ Subjects

Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Business Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Computer-Aided Engineering (CAD, CAE) and Design