ENRICHING PRODUCT INFORMATION DURING THE PRODUCT LIFECYCLE

Kary Främling, Lutz Rabe
2006 IFAC Proceedings Volumes  
A manufactured product usually has a great amount of design knowledge and other product information associated with it in CAD drawings and other technical documentation. Today, such product information mainly enables preventive maintenance of products. By collecting usage, performance and maintenance information about the product, it could be possible to perform more predictive maintenance. The key issue is to document product information in a way that would enable analysing the relation
more » ... usage parameters and actual product failures. Semantic networks are here proposed as an intermediate knowledge representation format for combining such static and dynamic product information.
doi:10.3182/20060517-3-fr-2903.00400 fatcat:pmaw6n3du5hghdlv7vq765wlfi