TY - GEN
T1 - Application of a product platform knowledge management methodology using the semantic web paradigm to a playground system
AU - Hart, Kathleen M.
AU - Shooter, Steven B.
AU - Simpson, Timothy W.
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Information management has been recognized as an essential ingredient for effective product family planning strategies through the utilization of product platforms. Product platforms utilize commonality of parts, modules, and processes during design and manufacture. This commonality must be well documented for its effective use, and ontologies are one way to organize this information to promote knowledge management. The following provides a case study to verify a proposed methodology for product platform knowledge management that uses the semantic web paradigm by applying it to a component from a major modular playground equipment producer. Our objective is to verify the developed methodology using a case study of a modular playground component and to evaluate the methodology's user adoptability. It will be shown that the methodology is successful and valid to apply to other applications, with some improvements, in the future.
AB - Information management has been recognized as an essential ingredient for effective product family planning strategies through the utilization of product platforms. Product platforms utilize commonality of parts, modules, and processes during design and manufacture. This commonality must be well documented for its effective use, and ontologies are one way to organize this information to promote knowledge management. The following provides a case study to verify a proposed methodology for product platform knowledge management that uses the semantic web paradigm by applying it to a component from a major modular playground equipment producer. Our objective is to verify the developed methodology using a case study of a modular playground component and to evaluate the methodology's user adoptability. It will be shown that the methodology is successful and valid to apply to other applications, with some improvements, in the future.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=44849129162&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=44849129162&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1115/DETC2007-34598
DO - 10.1115/DETC2007-34598
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:44849129162
SN - 0791848027
SN - 9780791848029
SN - 0791848035
SN - 9780791848036
T3 - 2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007
SP - 747
EP - 758
BT - 2007 Proceedings of the ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, DETC2007
T2 - 27th Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, presented at - 2007 ASME International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, IDETC/CIE2007
Y2 - 4 September 2007 through 7 September 2007
ER -