With increased market pressures now imposed on companies there is a greater requirement
for information and knowledge to be considered as fundamental resources; the need to …

The importance and reliance that engineering designers make upon knowledge as an
information source, within the development of new products, is known to be of great …

An analysis of recent research on knowledge technologies in engineering design shows that
a majority deals with modelling issues. The interest in acquiring and retrieving knowledge …

The reality of knowledge management (KM) in companies joins in a multiplicity of ends and
situations. In the scientific literature, KM seems to appear as a sort of a more or less unified …

New product development (NPD) can be described as both complex and multidisciplinary,
and also as an activity that often requires significant amounts of design knowledge …

In today's world there is ever increasing pressure to bring products to market in a quicker
and more time-ly fashion that fulfill customers' needs and are delivered on budget. One way …

This paper presents the results from a UK survey about the knowledge and information
requirements of managers and engineers in design and service. The survey aimed to gather …

This research builds on three projects that aim to investigate how knowledge transfer takes
place in new product development in the automotive industry. The study seeks to picture …

Various approaches to capturing and retrieving engineering design information and intent
are currently used in industry and play an important role in engineering design collaboration …

Product design is a highly involved, often ill-defined, complex and iterative process, and the
needs and specifications of the required artifact get more refined only as the design process …