Modelling of Product Configuration Design and Management by Using Product Structure Knowledge [chapter]

Bei Yu, Ken J. MacCallum
1996 IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology  
For whole life cycle of product development, configuration can be considered from two aspects: configuration design which is the activity of creating configuration solutions, and configuration management which is the process of maintaining a consistent configuration under change. Both configuration design and configuration management are complex processes for many products, particularly when the product structure is complex in terms of a large number of elements with different relationships,
more » ... configuration problem will be significant. This paper presents an AI-based system to support configuration design and management. The contribution is of a system which models product configuration knowledge, and uses a Reason Maintenance System as an inference engine to assist the designer to create a product structure in terms of configuration solution. At the same time, the configuration consistency is maintained by the inference engine. Keywords configuration design and management, product structures, reason maintenance mechanism, logic-based truth maintenance system, constraint-based reasoning.
doi:10.1007/978-0-387-34930-5_8 fatcat:xu5v7kdq5ffvhlgugn6pbnrble