Towards the application of case based reasoning to decision-making in concurrent product development (concurrent engineering)
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Background (concurrent engineering)
New product development (NPD), is an interdisciplinary activity requiring contributions from nearly all the functions of a firm, whether it is an upgrade/improvement of an existing product or a new concept either to the company or the market. Traditionally NPD has been viewed as an organisational activity, which was the result of various functional activities performed in stages from concept development to product delivery. The sequential operation of these functional stages resulted in long
The solution—choice of CBR
The explicit request for reuse of knowledge and experience called for the application of case based reasoning (CBR). CBR is a computer technique, which combines the knowledge based support philosophy with a simulation of human reasoning when past experience is used, i.e. mentally searching for similar situations happened in the past and reusing the experience gained in those situations [8]. In the same way, in CBR, the knowledge cases are structured and stored in a database, which the user
The development process—overview
A CBR implementation, in any domain, requires a detailed analysis of the environment, as it is strongly related to the type of problems being solved or decisions being supported. For this reason, in the CODESCO project, the academic partners started by looking at the specific product development context of each company. User requirements were developed into system functional requirements through interviews, questionnaires and focussed workshops with project managers, design/development
Application benefits
The reason for applying a CBR decision support system was to improve the CE process or practices by improving the decision-making process. The success of CE lies in the achievement of collaboration between different team members. We have developed a decision support tool that provides factual information in a structured and context relevant format, and which encourages human intervention and discourse. This would enable the team to move towards a more CE conducive culture. This is achieved by
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