IMProVe 2011 - Proceedings

Knowledge Based Engineering and Product Data Exchange and Management
Towards a “high productive design methodology”
dedicated to modular product design
using a Knowledge Configuration approach
A. Robert (a) (b), C. Vernier (a) (c), T. Boudouh (a), S. Roth (a), S. Gomes (a)
(a) M3M Laboratory, UTBM, France
(b) MABI Company, France
(c) Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies Company, France
Abstract:
This paper presents a global methodology dedicated to modular product design based on
capitalization of standard parametric parts, parameters and design rules, connected to the
information management system of a company. This approach aims to develop and test a
“high productive design methodology”, taking into account the modularity of product
ranges and also the knowledge associated, in the framework of Design For Assembly
methods (DFA). Our method takes into consideration the product functions, its assembly
constraints and integrates the expert knowledge (parameters and rules) in the early stages
of the design process. After a literature survey focused on modularity in design, axiomatic
design, Design Structure Matrix and Knowledge Configuration Management concepts, we
describe the main steps of our approach. The example of a pneumatic scraping tool is
used to illustrate the effectiveness of the developed methodology. Through this modular
product example, we describe and discuss the main results of our methodology
considering our new concepts of Knowledge Configuration Management.
Keywords: Product Lifecycle Management, Knowledge Based Engineering, Knowledge
Configuration, Management, Modular design, Parametric modelling
Corresponding Author: Aurélie Robert
Aurélie ROBERT
Tel.: 0384583521
Fax.: 0384583207
e-mail: aurelie.robert@utbm.fr
Address: Laboratoire M3M - UTBM, rue du chateau, 90010 Belfort Cedex
June 15 th – 17 th , 2011, Venice, Italy
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