A well run and structured system for Managing Engineering Knowledge can literally prevent engineers from having to re-invent the wheel, saving precious expert time and effort. Exploiting the capital associated with design knowledge has been shown to release considerable savings in the cost and lead times for detail design of new products.
Until now there has been no common way of collecting, structuring, and formalizing the engineering knowledge associated with designs. This not only makes it hard to plan and organize the process of building knowledge based engineering applications, but also means that updating them and re-using modules is almost impossible. MOKA – methodology and software tools oriented to knowledge-based engineering applications – was created to fill this need. It is a practical tool to help those involved with building systems that represent knowledge, rather than a set of academic principles.
Managing Engineering Knowledge is a comprehensive user guide to the methodology.
Managing Engineering Knowledge caters for a wide range of people and backgrounds – including general managers operating at the strategic level, project managers, engineering designers, information technologists, system modellers, and technical analysts.
COMPLETE CONTENTS:
- Knowledge based engineering
- MOKA: The KBE lifecycle
- Identify/justify steps
- Collecting knowledge
- Structuring knowledge
- ICARE forms
- Informal model charts
- Transferring raw knowledge
- Formalizing knowledge
- Product model
- Design process model
- Transferring knowledge between informal and formal models
- Using MOKA models in KBE systems
- Activating models
- Knowledge sharing and re-use
- The future of MOKA.
Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.