Design Requirements Management using an Ontological Framework

✍ Scribed by R. Roy; C.I.V. Kerr; P.J. Sackett; J. Corbett

• Publisher: International Academy for Production Engineering
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 909 KB
• Volume: 54
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-8506
• DOI: 10.1016/s0007-8506(07)60061-4

✦ Synopsis

The specification activity is a critical enabler for collaborative product development through an extended enterprise. Often this activity involves numerous iterations before a shared understanding of the product requirements is achieved since various omissions, ambiguities and assumptions have to be resolved. This paper will present a framework for the electronic-enabling of the requirements founded on ontology-based constructs to provide a shared conceptualisation of the knowledge needed for the specification of a product. The application of ontology is a means to establish the consensual knowledge about the needs of a product and to then apply this shared understanding for its specification.