KBE and Manufacturing Constraints Management

The paper is associated with Manufacturing Knowledge Management and so that stream of the work has been formalised into the KNOMAD methodology. The Knowledge Optimized Manufacture And Design (KNOMAD) is a methodology for the analytical utilisation of manufacturing knowledge within design. The main contribution is to highlight the validity of the KNOMAD methodology and to show how that can be incorporated within a KBE approach in order to show how manufacturing knowedlge management can be used to aid decision making in analysing the implications of various solution choices.