2. KnowledgeBasedEngineering
The need to
capture, manage, and utilize design knowledge and automate processes unique to a manufacturer’s product development experience has led to the development of knowledge-based Engineering (KBE).
The
purpose of KBE is to provide a specialized design environment to the users for capturing intents.
The
goal of KBE technology is to provide design organizations with a programming and template base environment for capturing and infusing this valuable knowledge into its product design processes and to engineer to manufacture products with more consistent product quality and increased production efficiencies.
KBE
helpsin reduction in design time, eliminates checking, captures product knowledge and allows companies to customize more and more products, with shorter lead times, and increased market share and revenues.
Realizing the Benefits
• Reduction in the design cycle length up to 90%
• Removes all engineering redundancies
• Prevents knowledge being lost through employee attrition
• KBE generates all the engineering documents (3D Models/2D Drawings/BoM/Costing/etc…) and hence accelerates ‘Time to Market’.
• The redesigned model reduction in Weight and Cost.
Implementation steps
• Capturing the knowledge from all organizational departments
• Structure it in organizational process through making of rules
• The design rules in the design procedures
• Implement these design rules in product lifecycle through proprietary formats as per customer specific requirements.