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Knowledge transfer: from maintenance to engine design

Knowledge transfer: from maintenance to engine design
Knowledge transfer: from maintenance to engine design
As manufacturers shift their focus from selling products to providing services, designers must therefore increasingly consider the life-cycle requirements in addition to conventional design parameters. To identify possible areas of concern, engineers must consider knowledge gained through the life cycle of a related product. However, because of the size and distributed nature of a company’s operation, engineers often do not have access to front-line maintenance data. Additionally, the large number of documents generated during the design and operation of a product makes it impractical to manually review all documents thoroughly during a design task. This paper presents a prototype knowledge-based document repository for an aeroengine manufacturer. The developed system searches and analyzes distributed document resources, and provides engineers with a summary view of the underlying knowledge. The aim is to aid engineers in creating design requirements that incorporate maintenance issues. Unlike existing document repositories and digital libraries, our approach is knowledge based, where users browse summary reports instead of following suggested links. To test the validity of our architecture, we have developed and deployed a prototype of our knowledge-based document repository. The repository has been demonstrated to and validated by the engine design community
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Wong, Sylvia C.
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Crowder, Richard M.
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Wills, Gary B.
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Shadbolt, Nigel R.
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Wong, Sylvia C.
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Crowder, Richard M.
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Wills, Gary B.
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Shadbolt, Nigel R.
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Wong, Sylvia C., Crowder, Richard M., Wills, Gary B. and Shadbolt, Nigel R. (2008) Knowledge transfer: from maintenance to engine design. Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering, 8 (1). (doi:10.1115/1.2840777).

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As manufacturers shift their focus from selling products to providing services, designers must therefore increasingly consider the life-cycle requirements in addition to conventional design parameters. To identify possible areas of concern, engineers must consider knowledge gained through the life cycle of a related product. However, because of the size and distributed nature of a company’s operation, engineers often do not have access to front-line maintenance data. Additionally, the large number of documents generated during the design and operation of a product makes it impractical to manually review all documents thoroughly during a design task. This paper presents a prototype knowledge-based document repository for an aeroengine manufacturer. The developed system searches and analyzes distributed document resources, and provides engineers with a summary view of the underlying knowledge. The aim is to aid engineers in creating design requirements that incorporate maintenance issues. Unlike existing document repositories and digital libraries, our approach is knowledge based, where users browse summary reports instead of following suggested links. To test the validity of our architecture, we have developed and deployed a prototype of our knowledge-based document repository. The repository has been demonstrated to and validated by the engine design community

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Published date: March 2008
Organisations: Web & Internet Science, Agents, Interactions & Complexity, Electronic & Software Systems

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Local EPrints ID: 265455
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/265455
ISSN: 1530-9827
PURE UUID: f58803e0-0cb2-44a7-b84e-f9b4fc537b06
ORCID for Gary B. Wills: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0001-5771-4088

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Date deposited: 21 Apr 2008 10:08
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 02:51

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Author: Sylvia C. Wong
Author: Richard M. Crowder
Author: Gary B. Wills ORCID iD
Author: Nigel R. Shadbolt

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