Relationships between the concepts in the design ontology

Presented research is aimed to the investigation of the nature, building and practical role of a Design Ontology as a potential formal description of the shared engineering knowledge in design domain. As the part of the research results, this article summarizes our experience of identification and formal characterization of the large number of relations that can be extracted from the domain of product/design description. Based upon this formalization authors illustrate the possibilities for creating a more definite formal design model.