Adaptive Object Definition in Lifecycle Engineering of Products

This paper introduces a new method for the representation of knowledge that improves communication between engineer and object generation processes in the definition of product objects in modeling systems. New knowledge representations are introduced to improve knowledge representation capabilities of current product modeling systems to allow better understanding of product model, coordination of change requests, and establishing a new adaptive product definition. Analysis of current product model definition process is followed by comparative introduction of the proposed new knowledge definition and processing. The method called as personal intent based product object definition is one of the results of a long term research activity by the authors in the topic group of human controlled automation of engineering activities in product lifecycle management (PLM) systems.