17 Knowledge Based Product Configuration
A documentation tool for configuration projects
Lars Hvam and Martin Malis
Centre for Product Modeling, Department of Manufacturing Engineering and
Management,
Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark
How can complex product models
be documented in formalised way that consider both development and maintenance?
The need for an effective documentation tool has emerged in order to document
the development of product models. The product models have become more
and more complex and comprehensive. A lot of knowledge is put into these
systems and many domain experts are involved. This calls for an effective
documentation system in order to structure this knowledge in a way that
fits to the systems. Standard configuration systems do not support this
kind of documentation. The chapter deals with the development of a Lotus
Notes application that serves as a knowledge based documentation tool
for configuration projects. A prototype has been developed and tested
empirically in an industrial case-company. It has proved to be a success.
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