Active Knowledge for the Situation-driven Control of Product Definition

The current product model consists of features and unstructured contextual connections in order to relate features. The feature modifies the previous state of the product model producing contextual connections with previously defined features. Active knowledge is applied for the adaptive modification of product model features in the case of a changed situation or event. Starting from this state-of-the-art, the authors of this paper introduced a new method to achieve higher-level and more advanced active feature driven product model definition. As part of the related research program, new situation driven model definition processes and model entities are explained in this paper. Higher-level knowledge representation in the product model is motivated by a recent trend in industrial product modeling systems towards more advanced and efficient situation-based self- adaptive model generation. The proposed model represents one of the possible future ways of product model development for product lifecycle management (PLM) systems on the global or product level of decisions. Its implementation will be new application-oriented model entity generation and representation utilizing existing modeling resources in industrial PLM systems by use of application programming interfaces (API).

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